"Words are of two kinds, simple or double."
According to Aristotle. He goes on to say:"By simple I mean those composed of non-significant elements... By double or compound, those composed either of a significant and non-significant element (though within the whole word no element is significant), or of elements that are both significant. A word may likewise be triple, quadruple, or multiple in form...
Every word is either current, or strange, or metaphorical, or ornamental, or newly-coined, or contracted, or altered.
By a current or proper word I mean one which is in general use among a people; by a strange word, one which is in use in another country. Plainly, therefore, the same word may be at once strange and current, but not in relation to the same people."
Shades of Alice's hookah-smoking caterpillar... Ari's talking about the structure of words at first, but I think he's going on to embrace their meaning as well. I frequently feel as if I am from another country, or universe, when trying to find out just what the mis-leaders of this country are saying, and what they are actually doing. They indeed do violence to our language as methodically as they conduct it upon people in other countries.
A strange event in this area: As my 88 year old mother and I walked out in the sunshine late this morning, the heavy whumping of big helicopters could be heard over the freeway, about a mile away. Immediately I knew why: China's leader, President Hu, was in town to visit Bill Gates. Oh, yeah, and Cheney was skulking about extracting blood for local incumbent Repubs.
Great irony, big ass Communist leader wanting to meet big ass GOP software giant from a "democracy". Common language? Fluent in Universal Robber Baron, and its subdialect, Profiteering. Even without words, they could communicate by going into Gates's big money room and jumping around in the loot. They could have jolly pillow fights with bags full of bills, build hideouts and forts with bales of crisp IOU's.
Ah, I need a good tonic run.
Every word is either current, or strange, or metaphorical, or ornamental, or newly-coined, or contracted, or altered.
By a current or proper word I mean one which is in general use among a people; by a strange word, one which is in use in another country. Plainly, therefore, the same word may be at once strange and current, but not in relation to the same people."
Shades of Alice's hookah-smoking caterpillar... Ari's talking about the structure of words at first, but I think he's going on to embrace their meaning as well. I frequently feel as if I am from another country, or universe, when trying to find out just what the mis-leaders of this country are saying, and what they are actually doing. They indeed do violence to our language as methodically as they conduct it upon people in other countries.
A strange event in this area: As my 88 year old mother and I walked out in the sunshine late this morning, the heavy whumping of big helicopters could be heard over the freeway, about a mile away. Immediately I knew why: China's leader, President Hu, was in town to visit Bill Gates. Oh, yeah, and Cheney was skulking about extracting blood for local incumbent Repubs.
Great irony, big ass Communist leader wanting to meet big ass GOP software giant from a "democracy". Common language? Fluent in Universal Robber Baron, and its subdialect, Profiteering. Even without words, they could communicate by going into Gates's big money room and jumping around in the loot. They could have jolly pillow fights with bags full of bills, build hideouts and forts with bales of crisp IOU's.
Ah, I need a good tonic run.
posted by isabelita at 9:55 AM
4 Comments:
Yeah, I heard that guy from China was going to visit the important people first, before he moves on to the White House. But that's good. Bill should get a little more cash out of the deal, and China gets an inferior operating system!
Get me a bloody mary - the choice drink for people sick of the blood of war.
I was wondering if you would have been graced with being at one of these wonderful events. Which case you could have used my question that I pose in today's post about the Big Dick.
The way they "indeed do violence to our language as methodically as they conduct it upon people in other countries" looks more and more like rhetorical suicide than anything else to me. Why they don't end up dying is a whole other conversation
As if either communism or Gatesim needs more encouragement. Please. And what was the gift to the big fat communist man, I do wonder?
Yes, neil, perhaps Bill needs a few more shekels. The dinner at Chez Gates for Hu looked as if it included fried chicken, or chicken-fried steak, judging from the brief glimpse they had on the news the other night. A big wad of fried battered somehting or other.
HAHHAHAHA! Me, at one of those events? 'spike, I'd never have been able to fake enough rightwingism to get into that Cheney fundraising for local GOPers, and I'm not exactly a "dignitary."
The front page shows Hu wearing a Boeing baseball-type hat up at the Everett plant. China has purchased planes from Boeing, keeping it going...ooh, litle rhymin' there! but I'm sure China would drop Boeing like a shot if they could get the planes cheaper from anyone else. They were all huggy and warm and fuzzy, but bidness is bidness.
So, zelda, Hu did get a new cap...
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