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Klaus on-rev klaus at major.on-rev.com
Sat Dec 4 15:24:02 EST 2010


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

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Klaus Major
http://www.major-k.de
klaus at major.on-rev.com





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