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#130993 08/14/04 12:08 AM
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Sometimes it's the job of a Fool to state the obvious.

As you have just demonstrated, Faldage, with such charming innocence and ironic self-content, stating the obvious is not always the same thing as recognizing the obvious.


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Pray tell, Amemeba, what contemplative reveries could be more bovine than musing on something which is utterly empty-headed?

Ah Ha! The Wordminstrel speaks of cows of a different kine!

Cows and adolescents and beat poets don't speak in "words" they simply "Moo". Mooing, you see, serves them well in-as-much-as they have no need for sapient conversation. Their only need is to belong to the herd, or the coming generation, or the cognoscenti. A meaningless moo, properly mooed, will garner them membership in the desired in-group and the hip-group will answer back "Right-on", or "Cool" or "I herd that".

But in great contrast, Wordminstrel, a few some of us aspire towards a much higher goal, namely, towards a more accurate understanding of the fundamental nature of words and their meanings. Through this understanding we hope to bring peace to all mankine. (or something like that.)

Wanna join our happy group? Wanna stop being a word nerd who uses words like a knee-jerk robot that knows not well what the words mean?
If you prove to have ears, Wordminstrel, I will be happy to share some of our dark word secrets.




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a few some of us aspire towards a much higher goal, namely, towards a more accurate understanding of the fundamental nature of words and their meanings.

Whatever "few" you have in mind, Amemeba, it would be better for everyone, not to mention your cause, if there were even fewer of them.

I fear the tinkers have mistook their tinking for thinking. As you yourself observed so insightfully, so recently [albeit more harshly than I myself would have put it]: "How does an ignorant person recognize a wise one?"

How can a cow which can only "moo" recognize the music in a voice, the poetry in a pasture?


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Hot diggedy dog, Wordminstrel, you lose!

You resorted to name calling without also addressing the proposition at hand.

It is good to win but somehow I feel cheapened. Like a small town tinkerer who has failed to help out a fellow man.

Edit Added: Darnit Wordminstrel, I think you added that last part about the poetry of a pasture after I replied. I think.
Non-the-less your non sequitur serves as a allusion to the point so I apologize. Damnit.



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I think you added that last part about the poetry of a pasture after I replied. I think.

Let us just say we are on the same wave-length after all, Amemeba.



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Inasmuch as. Nonetheless. No hyphens.


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Ahbutyes, Nancyk, you digress.

Who is the fool? Faldage? Wordminstrel? Other?
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