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Cain

#75
September 21, 2009, 11:20:21 PM
Quote from: LMNO on September 21, 2009, 01:40:49 PM
Yeah, it's basically using metaphors to make metaphors out of metaphors.

Its metaphors all the way down.

Rococo Modem Basilisk

#76
September 22, 2009, 01:52:00 AM
Well, to talk about a concrete thing we use a general language, which could be argued to be a system of static and accepted metaphors. So, we are using a metaphor for a metaphor in order to phrase a metaphor in a system of metaphors in order to explain a metaphor for something that is probably a concrete phenomenon, but is unobservable except through another metaphor expressed in a different system of metaphors.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

LMNO

#77
September 22, 2009, 01:58:00 AM
Or, not.

The Good Reverend Roger

#78
September 22, 2009, 03:02:07 AM
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on September 22, 2009, 01:52:00 AM
Well, to talk about a concrete thing we use a general language, which could be argued to be a system of static and accepted metaphors. So, we are using a metaphor for a metaphor in order to phrase a metaphor in a system of metaphors in order to explain a metaphor for something that is probably a concrete phenomenon, but is unobservable except through another metaphor expressed in a different system of metaphors.

Barstool, please.

Hey, Enki...this is precisely why you will die a virgin.  Just saying.

TGRR,
Likes to help people.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Rococo Modem Basilisk

#79
September 22, 2009, 11:29:40 AM
Sex and precise language don't mix?


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

Kai

#80
September 22, 2009, 12:33:17 PM
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on September 22, 2009, 11:29:40 AM
Sex and precise language don't mix?

"Hey, baby, I want to do something with my thinger in the vicinity of your thinger something approximately in the futurish. Maybe."
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. --Loren Eisley, The Immense Journey

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Grand Visser of the Six Legged Class
Chanticleer of the Holometabola Clade Church, Diptera Parish

Golden Applesauce

#81
September 22, 2009, 04:44:12 PM
"I'd verb her noun."
Q: How regularly do you hire 8th graders?
A: We have hired a number of FORMER 8th graders.

The Good Reverend Roger

#82
September 22, 2009, 04:45:17 PM
"Hey baby, wanna come back to my place and see my metaphor?"
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

The Good Reverend Roger

#83
September 22, 2009, 04:46:19 PM
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on September 22, 2009, 11:29:40 AM
Sex and precise language don't mix?

Sex and pretentious, pedantic fuckholery don't mix.  Also, the inability to write a concise statement != "precise language".
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

LMNO

#84
September 22, 2009, 04:46:41 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2009, 04:45:17 PM
"Hey baby, wanna come back to my place and see my metaphor?"

"What's a metaphor?"

Rococo Modem Basilisk

#85
September 22, 2009, 05:24:22 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2009, 04:46:19 PM
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on September 22, 2009, 11:29:40 AM
Sex and precise language don't mix?

Sex and pretentious, pedantic fuckholery don't mix.  Also, the inability to write a concise statement != "precise language".

Okay, let me rephrase in small words: Since language itself is a metaphor system, the level of abstraction on each of the above operations needs to be incremented.

I think my original statement was easier to parse, though.


I am not "full of hate" as if I were some passive container. I am a generator of hate, and my rage is a renewable resource, like sunshine.

The Good Reverend Roger

#86
September 22, 2009, 05:30:56 PM
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on September 22, 2009, 05:24:22 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2009, 04:46:19 PM
Quote from: Enki v. 2.0 on September 22, 2009, 11:29:40 AM
Sex and precise language don't mix?

Sex and pretentious, pedantic fuckholery don't mix.  Also, the inability to write a concise statement != "precise language".

Okay, let me rephrase in small words: Since language itself is a metaphor system, the level of abstraction on each of the above operations needs to be incremented.

I think my original statement was easier to parse, though.

Neither one is clearly written.  It isn't the size of the words, it's the fucking stew you keep making out of them.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Golden Applesauce

#87
September 22, 2009, 06:57:47 PM
Made perfect sense to me.  Is that bad?

Help!  I accidentally a whole Enki's post!
Q: How regularly do you hire 8th graders?
A: We have hired a number of FORMER 8th graders.

The Good Reverend Roger

#88
September 22, 2009, 07:02:55 PM
Quote from: GA on September 22, 2009, 06:57:47 PM
Made perfect sense to me.  Is that bad?

Yes.  It implies that you speak Spag.  HEAR THAT, ENKI!  YOU'VE FOUND YOUR DREAM WOMAN!

Quote from: GA on September 22, 2009, 06:57:47 PM
Help!  I accidentally a whole Enki's post!

Well, first you have to and then the whole thing!
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.

Golden Applesauce

#89
September 22, 2009, 07:42:48 PM
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 22, 2009, 07:02:55 PM
Quote from: GA on September 22, 2009, 06:57:47 PM
Made perfect sense to me.  Is that bad?

Yes.  It implies that you speak Spag.  HEAR THAT, ENKI!  YOU'VE FOUND YOUR DREAM WOMAN!

Quote from: GA on September 22, 2009, 06:57:47 PM
Help!  I accidentally a whole Enki's post!

Well, first you have to and then the whole thing!

I AM NOBODY'S WOMAN  :argh!:
Q: How regularly do you hire 8th graders?
A: We have hired a number of FORMER 8th graders.
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