Okay, so what the jabbering fuck IS "eprime", anygoddamnway?

[Cain]

It is my belief that you haven't lived until you've stuck your dick in a block of what appears to be bleeding tofu.

E-primed

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It is my belief that you haven't lived until you've stuck your dick in a block of what appears to be bleeding tofu.

E-primed

[Cain]

It is my belief that you haven't lived until you've stuck your dick in a block of what appears to be bleeding tofu.

E-primed

My feelings upon reading this is somewhat like this smiley:

There has to be a way to get paid for doing this.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

It is my belief that you haven't lived until you've stuck your dick in a block of what appears to be bleeding tofu.

E-primed

My feelings upon reading this is somewhat like this smiley:

There has to be a way to get paid for doing this.

Consultant.  Rape them, Cain.  Make them pay.

[Cain]

Isn't that what all consultants do?

Or, e-primed, isn't that what mosbunall consultants seem to do?

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Isn't that what all consultants do?

Or, e-primed, isn't that what mosbunall consultants seem to do?

Mosbunall??

Also, yes.  Do this thing.  There are a million suckers that run companies, and it is morally wrong to allow them to keep their budgets intact.

I've often thought of motivational speaking, myself, but I can't keep a straight face, which is something you Brits are famous for (also, the genetic ability for native Aussies to talk with their mouths closed* can't hurt, either).



*  Keeps the bugs out.

[Prelate Diogenes Shandor]

The flyin fuck is Pataphysics?  *shuffles off to google*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Pataphysics

'Pataphysics (French: 'Pataphysique), a term coined by French writer Alfred Jarry (1873 – 1907), is a philosophy or pseudophilosophy dedicated to studying what lies beyond the realm of metaphysics. It is a parody of the theory and methods of modern science and is often expressed in nonsensical language. A practitioner of 'pataphysics is a 'pataphysician or a 'pataphysicist.

There is also a literary device based on 'pataphysics

The pataphor (Spanish: patáfora, French: pataphore), is a term coined by writer and musician Pablo Lopez ("Paul Avion"), for an unusually extended metaphor based on Alfred Jarry's "science" of 'pataphysics. As Jarry claimed that 'pataphysics existed "as far from metaphysics as metaphysics extends from regular reality," a pataphor attempts to create a figure of speech that exists as far from metaphor as metaphor exists from non-figurative language. Whereas a metaphor is the comparison of a real object or event with a seemingly unrelated subject in order to emphasize the similarities between the two, the pataphor uses the newly created metaphorical similarity as a reality with which to base itself. In going beyond mere ornamentation of the original idea, the pataphor seeks to describe a new and separate world, in which an idea or aspect has taken on a life of its own.[5][6]

Like 'pataphysics itself, pataphors essentially describe two degrees of separation from reality (rather than merely one degree of separation, which is the world of metaphors and metaphysics). The pataphor may also be said to function as a critical tool, describing the world of "assumptions based on assumptions," such as belief systems or rhetoric run amok. The following is an example.

Non-figurative
Tom and Alice stood side by side in the lunch line.

Metaphor
Tom and Alice stood side by side in the lunch line, two pieces on a chessboard.

Pataphor
Tom took a step closer to Alice and made a date for Friday night, checkmating. Rudy was furious at losing to Margaret so easily and dumped the board on the rose-colored quilt, stomping downstairs.
Thus, the pataphor has created a world where the chessboard exists, including the characters who live in that world, entirely abandoning the original context.[7]

pataphor, by the way, is device which is used extensively in many of the albums recorded by Firesign Theatre

[Template]

new-age stupidity - turning a thought experiment that was supposed to break you out of a ridged world view... into its own ridged world view... yay lets eprime everything 

I can't.

I appear to be retarded in relation to this endeavour.

E-primed

It is my belief that you haven't lived until you've stuck your dick in a block of what appears to be bleeding tofu.

E-primed

It is my belief that you haven't lived until you've stuck your dick in a block of what appears to be bleeding tofu.

E-primed

My feelings upon reading this is somewhat like this smiley:

There has to be a way to get paid for doing this.

Damnit, Cain.  You did the exact opposite of what E-prime does!

Like discordia, I need not have respect for any other adherent of E-prime.  I will not defend them.

Ideally, E-prime encourages use of ACTION WORDS as the primary verbs in one's thoughts.  Fuck 'em if they don't improve for it.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Like discordia, I need not have respect for any other adherent of E-prime.  I will not defend them.

Ideally, E-prime encourages use of ACTION WORDS as the primary verbs in one's thoughts.  Fuck 'em if they don't improve for it.

Wait.  You are an adherent of this douchebaggery?

[Richter]

A HERETIC!

[Template]

I can use e-prime.  Triple Zero mentioned it favorably in his sig at one point.  I honestly did not know that stupidity also used that name.

I just used the One Rule:  "Never use to be."  Cheap and easy.  And I use "to be" as I wish now.

I don't remember why I used adherent.

Ever see that paragraph that has no letter "e" in it?  It doesn't seem strange until you know its trick.  Same thing here.  It doesn't have to be fucking retarded.  But some people do.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I don't worry much about e-priming around here anymore, because eprime is as likely to derail the conversation as much as any lack of clarity it was aiming to avoid. I used it for awhile in most of my posts/writings and tried to use it as much in speech as I could. For me, it was a good tool to get me out of the reality I was born and raised in... where everything was very black or very white. I was surprised at how the overt religious indoctrination appeared to infect my view of pretty much everything.

However, it can be overused (like by me)... its a great tool for internal use... its a good filter to run your comments/arguments/essays through to check for unintended bias. Its not so good for direct communication... at least not if the other people you're communicating with have a strong dislike for e Prime.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I can use e-prime.  Triple Zero mentioned it favorably in his sig at one point.  I honestly did not know that stupidity also used that name.

I just used the One Rule:  "Never use to be."  Cheap and easy.  And I use "to be" as I wish now.

I don't remember why I used adherent.

Ever see that paragraph that has no letter "e" in it?  It doesn't seem strange until you know its trick.  Same thing here.  It doesn't have to be fucking retarded.  But some people do.

I don't see the benefit.  Enlighten me.

[LMNO]

Some people feel that the language they use helps shape they way the think and see the world around them.

To this end, they feel that using versions of "to be" sets up an either/or mentality that misses the subtleties of perception; further, they feel that it creates a false indication of objectivity, when most things people say are entirely subjective.


But I thought you knew this, because I can't help remember you might have asked this question a year or two ago...

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Some people feel that the language they use helps shape they way the think and see the world around them.

They're wrong.  Language is how they describe the world around them.  It's like mistaking math for science. 

But I thought you knew this, because I can't help remember you might have asked this question a year or two ago...

Probably.  My brain has the consistency of watery oatmeal, these days.