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#70417 - 05/18/02 03:30 PM Nothing Said
Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...	Zip Squat Finig Nada Nothing Zero How else do we express nothing?
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#70418 - 05/18/02 03:35 PM Re: Nothing Said
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13658	Finig? Wherefrom did that come? Zilch Nichts Goose egg Variations on some of yours: Zippo Diddley-squat
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#70419 - 05/18/02 03:47 PM Re: Nothing Said
Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...	Finig is a word in another language and so is finnig. But neither means nothing. I've been using finig to mean nothing for a long time now, and today I learn from Faldage that I've been using a non-existent meaning for the word. I'm going to submit it to the pseudo-dictionary site and beg them to include it out of pity.
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#70420 - 05/18/02 04:59 PM Re: Nothing Said
WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N...	doodley-squat --Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
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#70421 - 05/18/02 06:16 PM Re: Nothing Said
Geoff old hand Registered: 11/12/00 Posts: 819 Loc: Portland,Oregon, USA	It seems to my little pea bain that expressing nothing is a logical conundrum. How does one express if one doesn't express something? But, then, Hamlet's words come to mind:"...A sound made by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
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#70422 - 05/18/02 06:23 PM Re: Nothing Said
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13658	I have a note in my JDR® that says we know more about nothing than we do about everything. Has a barely legible reference to Scientific American scribbled in the lower left hand corner.
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#70423 - 05/18/02 06:27 PM Logical conundrum
alexis member Registered: 04/30/02 Posts: 148 Loc: Melbourne, Aus	One must be able to express nothing, in order to have a contrast when one expresses something. The introduction of the concept of zero was a crucial one in terms of advancing mathematics.. interestingly, the ancient Greeks almost certainly didn't think of it. The Mayans and the Indians did, though [independently] alexis
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#70424 - 05/18/02 06:33 PM Re: Logical conundrum
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13658	I have a book somewhere about the zero and the effect of its introduction to western society. Fittingly it has a chapter Zero.
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#70425 - 05/18/02 06:40 PM Re: Logical conundrum
alexis member Registered: 04/30/02 Posts: 148 Loc: Melbourne, Aus	There's a fair bit about zero in a book I just finished, "The Calendar". You sort of need zero for decimals, and when you want to say that the year is 365.2564 days long [the sidereal year, that is, in the year 2000] it gets unwieldy without decimals! We seem to have something of a paucity of nothing-expressions so far. alexis
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#70426 - 05/18/02 06:40 PM Re: Logical conundrum
Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...	Fittingly it has a chapter Zero.Faldage ...and is the chapter a blank page?
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