TruthMonger wrote:
The whips and chains are the best part... The Eskimos have something like 30 different words for "snow." If you or I want to 'talk snow' with an Eskimo, our "method of expression" (language) will be affected by the "basic fundamentals" by which our differing languages are constructed. If we filter these already obvious differences through different medium of communiations (words, pictures, ASCII characters, etc.), then the "fundamental issues" will "change radically" according to the number and type of filters that our communications are interpreted through. 500 years from now, my own biases and bigottries will be revealed by the stripping away of the current commonly understood methods of misdirection by which I attempt to disguise them, as well as disguised by the the future misunderstandings of the unique meaning that my current commonly understood methods of communication convey to those steeped in the the peculularities of our era. i.e. - People drunk on Scotch, 500 years in the future, will understand what I just said, whereas even I, myself, am unlikely to understand it in the morning, once I sober up.
I would propose...
Thanks, but I don't go that way...
- People are people, people are strange
- What makes one person happy is guaranteed to piss somebody else off
- Most people will never figure the first two out even if you tell them the answers
Young and Hettinga are going to be really pissed when they find out that you've been dipping into their 'stash'...
I'm beginning to think your attention span is tuned to those 30 second blip-verts...and who asked? Are the voices back already?
Nope. I'm wearing the aluminum foil hat...
Reality is that even when the medium evolves to the point where we can use it to convey the totality of what we are trying to convey, that
"convey the totality"? What kind of double-speak bullshit is that?
I was hoping that I could slip that one by you.
Look junior, the absolutely *ONLY* way to express the 'totality' of an experience is to be the one doing the experience. You can pop all the moddies and daddies you wanna but it's still a pale imitation; a rose it is not in any language. Now unless you have just instantly warped our happy assess into the far flung future we are a long walk from plugging brains together, nic's & protocols not withstanding.
Whoa! Sounds like you took a few too many of the 'red' ones...
My suggestion, don't quit your day job, assuming your old enough to have a job. They can't tell you're a dawg on the Internet.
I'm a 13 year-old dawg, and I'm not wearing any panties. (91 in people-years.)
SaggingTitsMonger
Innuit words for snow.. Aniugavinirq: very hard, compressed and frozen snow Apijaq: snow covered by bad weather Apigiannagaut: first snow of Autumn Apimajug: snow-covered Apisimajug: snow-covered, but not snowed in Apujjag: snowed-in Aput: snow Aputiqarniq: snowfall on ground Aqillutaq: new snow Auviq: snow block Katakaqtanaq: hardcrust snow that gives way underfoot Kavisilaq: snow roughened by frost Kiniqtaq: compact, damp snow Mannguq: melting snow Masak: wet, falling snow Matsaaq: half-melted snow Mauja: soft, deep snow footsteps sink in Natiruvaaq: drifting snow Pirsirlug: blowing snow Pukajaak: sugary snow Putak: crystalline, breaks into grains Qaggitaq: snow ditch to trap caribou Qaliriiktaq: snow layer of poor quality for an igloo Qaniktaq: new snow on ground Qannialaaq: light, falling snow Qiasuqqaq: thawed snow that refroze with an icy surface Qimugjuk: snow drift Qiqumaaq: snow with a frozen surface after spring thaw Qirsuqaktuq: light snow Qukaarnartuq: crusted snow Sitilluqaq: hard snow" SnowMonger (even though not anonymous..yet, subscribing to the DrunkMonger tendencies)