Well, NeoV, since I hand wash my own undies and have, thereby, as it were, become something of a master of the art I call 'the extracting of aromatic essence', I think I was able to adduce, more or less the pith and meat of your otherwise meandering diatribe. Naturally, armed with a nose for such things I shan?t want to debate with you what in fact is essence and what is dross. Simply accept the fact that I nose the truth.
So here is what you said even if you don't know it:
1. One can have a genuine and intelligent curiosity about OBL that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with tom toms.
Well for answer:
You could be right. Now, was that either the intention or the effect of the original post, other than, that is my own cogent and insightful, and may I add, brilliantly conceived contributions?
Of course there were a few others too, I haven't the time to do a full accounting, but on the whole the effect was to drum beat ourselves into a frenzy, more or less, would you not agree? I have no objection; I hope you don't mind, though, me pointing it out. I am descended form a long line of chimpanzees and feel a quite definite, if inexplicable need to point out monkey business wherever I find it.
So next time, oh I forgot there won't be a next time. So next time you have a similar experience with someone else to the one you had with me, just make your point simply and directly, minus all the atmospherics ( hehe, I should talk ) and all the blather about vocabulary, etc etc etc. And don't kid yourself, it isn't my vocabulary that galls you, it's the pattern of my cognition.
And if you promise not to tell, I'll let you in on a little secret. I am a nobody. No not a perfect nobody. No such luck for me. I still got lots of pretensions and ego here and there. But enough of a nobody to catch maybe a glimpse of the truth I'm now enumerating, in all awkwardness here, now. So as I was saying, the advantages of being a nobody are enormous. Your post was sort of aimed at hurting me, I think. That's just a guess. But hehe, beat ya. I already knew. I'm just a nobody. Make fun of the way I talk. Beat ya, I had sanded off long ago any notion of the importance of my words. I gave up on any notion of impressing people. Yup, I talks the way I talks just like Popeye, I am what I am.
This is just another guess, but my theory is that I spend so little energy worrying about what you will think of what I say, and therefore, because I spend so little energy on constructing my words to achieve some impressive effect, I can spend all that otherwise wasted energy thinking about what I want to say and how best to say it. Now over the years I guess I?ve read this and that and acquired some sort of a working vocabulary and have discovered, owing to that self same focus on content and intent rather than effect, that words have a remarkable property. Each of them means something slightly or completely different than every other and therefore, like a set of wrenches, this one works good here and that one good there and it even happens sometimes as for me just now, that you realize that in some cases the size of your tool kit determines the nature of the job you can tackle. Now I don't want to get linuxboy in trouble, but he makes me look like a piker. He's not the only one.
And none of the language I use is original to me. I heard every word somewhere else before. Find one from me you don't know? Think of it as a gift on loan.
What I'm really good at is spelling.
So here is what you said even if you don't know it:
1. One can have a genuine and intelligent curiosity about OBL that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with tom toms.
Well for answer:
You could be right. Now, was that either the intention or the effect of the original post, other than, that is my own cogent and insightful, and may I add, brilliantly conceived contributions?
Of course there were a few others too, I haven't the time to do a full accounting, but on the whole the effect was to drum beat ourselves into a frenzy, more or less, would you not agree? I have no objection; I hope you don't mind, though, me pointing it out. I am descended form a long line of chimpanzees and feel a quite definite, if inexplicable need to point out monkey business wherever I find it. So next time, oh I forgot there won't be a next time. So next time you have a similar experience with someone else to the one you had with me, just make your point simply and directly, minus all the atmospherics ( hehe, I should talk ) and all the blather about vocabulary, etc etc etc. And don't kid yourself, it isn't my vocabulary that galls you, it's the pattern of my cognition.
And if you promise not to tell, I'll let you in on a little secret. I am a nobody. No not a perfect nobody. No such luck for me. I still got lots of pretensions and ego here and there. But enough of a nobody to catch maybe a glimpse of the truth I'm now enumerating, in all awkwardness here, now. So as I was saying, the advantages of being a nobody are enormous. Your post was sort of aimed at hurting me, I think. That's just a guess.
But hehe, beat ya. I already knew. I'm just a nobody. Make fun of the way I talk. Beat ya, I had sanded off long ago any notion of the importance of my words. I gave up on any notion of impressing people. Yup, I talks the way I talks just like Popeye, I am what I am. This is just another guess, but my theory is that I spend so little energy worrying about what you will think of what I say, and therefore, because I spend so little energy on constructing my words to achieve some impressive effect, I can spend all that otherwise wasted energy thinking about what I want to say and how best to say it. Now over the years I guess I?ve read this and that and acquired some sort of a working vocabulary and have discovered, owing to that self same focus on content and intent rather than effect, that words have a remarkable property. Each of them means something slightly or completely different than every other and therefore, like a set of wrenches, this one works good here and that one good there and it even happens sometimes as for me just now, that you realize that in some cases the size of your tool kit determines the nature of the job you can tackle. Now I don't want to get linuxboy in trouble, but he makes me look like a piker. He's not the only one.
And none of the language I use is original to me. I heard every word somewhere else before. Find one from me you don't know? Think of it as a gift on loan.
What I'm really good at is spelling.
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