Hi Richmond, > On 12/04/2010 08:36 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: >> Hi Richmond, >> >>> On 12/04/2010 08:23 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: >>>> Hi Mr. Tight-lipped, >>> Do you really want me to return to my previous blabber-mouthed incarnation? >> Oh, NOOOOO! :-D >> >> But a complete sentence wouldn't have hurt! ;-) >> > Some sentences can, when one pauses to reflect on, meditate on, and inwardly > digest them, > drag on in a way, which with their multiple subordinate, embedded clauses, > caveats (and, come to > think of things, extra twiddly bits in parentheses (often multiply > parenthesised (to a seemingly absurd > degree))), serve only to irritate, annoy and otherwise provoke the reader, > recipient, interlocutor or > other interpreter to shout an extremely non-sentential "F*ck", owing to their > final, and ultimately > slow, almost stupid, realisation, that sentences are not always so > cut-and-dried as to sport only > a single, easily identifiable, subject, a verb (possibly phrasal or > involving, especially in English, > the use of an auxiliary such as "have" or "do", or a modal such as "should", > "might", "may", "can/could", > "ought to", or "have to") and a simplistic, one-word object (as opposed to a > complex noun phrase, > possiby also involving multiple embedded clauses); or, to put it another way, > or, possibly more > idiomatically, "to cut a long story short" (or, when one reflects upon ths > sentence, more appositely, > "to cut a short story long"); some sentences are, unequivocally, "a pain in > the nether regions" (and > those for the metaphorically challenged mean the buttocks, bottom, dowp, > bottom, arse) that can > drive a good man (and, one should add in these egalitarian days that the word > 'man' here is > used in an all-inclusive fashion embracing women, transgendered people and > eunuchs as well > as men Ding-an-Sich) to thoughts of despair or even suicide. > > Some sentences can hurt a lot . . . :) > > Love, kisses and funny moises, Richmond.
Geeeeez! These are the kind of postings that I never read, too much info noone asked for and, at least me, noone is interested in. You know this is a Livecode mailing list and not "Philosophy today", do you? :-D -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
