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- From: ap290@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Ruth M. Hanschka)
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- Subject: Re: e-oops
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 06:19:00 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, samant@CS.UCHICAGO.EDU () says:
-
- >By the way, Ruth, more can be gotten out of discourse than just
- >gut feelings like "she's being friendly", "this is good", "that
- >is threatening", "this is bad" and so on. Most people also like
- >their words to have more precise meanings. Generally they happen
- >to succeed.
- >
- Gee, I hadn't noticed. You, for instance, never seem to understand a word
- I say. The feeling is often mutual, as the above makes no sense at all.
- You're coming out with random thoughts again, Tushie. But then, we've come
- to expect it of you, and so take it with a grain of incomprehension and a
- shrug of the shoulders.
-
- >I am not against babbling as such, but it is amusing when a babbler
- >begins to hear the world through a babbler's ears.
-
- Like we're doing right now? It is rather amusing to hear the pot calling the
- kettle tarnished.....
-
- >You could be losing out on a lot of fun by not taking into account
- >the fact that words have meanings.
- >
- Well, we already know that you *are*, so either it takes one to know one, or
- in this case maybe it takes one to see everyone else thinking the same way
- he does. There is always method to the madness of a Random Wierdness
- Generator; it just takes a certain brand of literacy combined with a dollop
- of insanity to comprehend it. You seem to lack the former.
-
- --
- ### Ruth Hanschka, the Nethead ###
- - ap290@cleveland.freenet.edu
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