So, on the death of The War Criminal, I've been reflecting on the most
irritating thing to me about George W Bush's stint: nukular. Sure. It's
irritating that he started a war for no good reason. If we learn anything from
Kissinger's treatment by the press, it's that those sorts of things don'
My dad was a nuclear engineer and nukular has always bothered me greatly.
I try to help people to say it right by telling them to think "new clear".
I'm not sure that would help Bush.
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On Fri, Dec 1, 2023, 8:2
I made the mistake of confessing my handicap to a friend. Now he purposefully
says nukular as a kind of Castañedan slap on the back, or the master's whack
with the stick. He knows it knocks me out of whatever canal I was in. It's
irritating, but a good thing overall.
Actually, it started with
Glen -
I appreciate that you shared with us your "handicap" which reminds me of
your self-report a few years back of tryptophobia.
I also am triggered by both of these. Your examples of Nukular/Nuclear
and Axe/Ask are obviously pretty familiar. I respond to them pretty
pre-consciously wi
Nothing could be more calculated to bring an old pedant out from under his
rock than this thread:
Mine is the use of "incredible" to mean "excellent". As in, "Don't you
think Rachel Maddow is an incredible commentator?" There was an Australian
Philosopher, David Stove, who wrote a book called,
So there’s a fun frivolous branch from the cases you list here.
I happen to share your allergy at the not-nuclear (can’t even bring myself to
type it).
But on aks, I learned something a few years ago (10?) from our phonologist
colleague Ian Maddieson when we were doing language work together.
Subject:"path toward "infinity and beyond", or "on being and becoming",
on "my path toward Post/Transhumanism through using LLMs in forward
facing internet engagement and cautionary tales"
Tangenting off of my recent tangential riff inspired (but not
particularly informed) by Glen's reflection
Nick -
i used to faint-dead when people used "inform" to mean "shape" as
in,"My thinking was informed by Glen's concept, Steelmanning," but I
am trying to get over that. Turns out it's a perfectly valid meaning
of the verb, and I don't have a leg to stand on. I still hate it,
but I hate i
In order to go to Infinting and beyond. Have Rex and woody get the
zargle type one flux repair module for a type 3 warp cleared space craft.
Then the evil forces of Lord Zedd and Emperror Zurg can be thwarted.
I'll be around all week.
On Fri, Dec 1, 2023 at 5:18 PM Steve Smith wrote:
> Nick
