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Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Sat Dec 4 15:53:05 EST 2010


On 12/04/2010 10:24 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote:
> 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
>
Really? Back to verbless sentences!



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