Richmond showing off prior political experience? -----Original Message----- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richmond Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 2:35 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: PDF ?
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. _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
