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I've seen this bit of text, or another clearly from the same original work, on countless spam mails I've gotten over the last couple of years. Anyone have any clues as to what work it comes from, or why someone would include this kind of thing in an unsolicited email. I find it entertaining that it appears to come from a work on linguistics.
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In theory, the independent functional principle adds explicit performance contours to Krapp's Last Tape. From the intercultural viewpoint, further and associated contradictory elements necessitates that coagulative measures be applied to the anticipated epistemological repercussions. For example, the incorporation of agonistic cultural constraints adds overwhelming Folkloristic significance to any discrete configuration modality. As a result, any associated supporting element requires considerable performance analysis and computer studies to arrive at the profound meaning of "The Raw and the Cooked". However, initiation of basic charismatic subculture development recognizes the importance of other disciplines, while taking into account any communicatively-programmed computer techniques. We can see, in retrospect, a primary interrelationship of system and/or subsystem logistics is functionally equivalent to (though formally distinct from) all deeper structuralistic conceptualization.
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Thanks much, and re-hi to all. Been a couple of months.
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Dear slovovoi: I read your quote, and found it obfuscating. I read Krapp's Last Tape, but did not enjoy it. Here is the URL for those who may wish to read it http://www.msu.edu/user/sullivan/BeckettKrapp.html
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I once heard someone say that some of the words William Buckley liked to emit to make his interlocutor feel stupid on Firing Line were made up on the spot. Were it not for its inelegance, I would say he might have written this crapp, too.
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some of the words William Buckley liked to emit to make his interlocutor feel stupid
Which brings up a question/point...do you (not you specifically insel. but folks on Board) feel stupid when you don't know what a word means.
Maybe it is just the way I was raised but I never feel stupid about those things. I just say "excuse me, but what does that word mean?" Nobody can be expected to know everything. If someone is trying to make me feel ignorant by uttering whole sentences like those above I will make them repeat, and explain it in other words, until I understand. I don't really care who is speaking.
One teacher I had in CEGEP told me (not just about words but any other subject) that if I asked it was certain that there were 20 people in class who had not understood and were afraid to look bad by speaking up.
You don't look stupid...the person who refuses to explain looks arrogant.
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I would welcome from slovovoi some clarification of his quotations. I feel a bit better knowing that I am not the only one who chooses not to pretend to understand them.
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<<I would welcome from slovovoi some clarification of his quotations.>>
Dear Dr. Bill,
I don't know; I though slovovoi found it 'entertaining that it appears to come from a work on *linguistics,' [emphasis mine] because it don't make no damn sense. And anyway, even if it does make sense, it would make *more sense if it made sense to more people. This ain't the kind of writing I scratch *my head over.
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I tend to agree with you there inselpeter. I rarely scratch my head over that type of writing either.
Generally I find that people who write like that have either a) an over-inflated sense of self that is *totally unjustified OR b) are insecure to the point of trying to cover it with big, important sounding words.
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Okay, Max, you're a champion explicator. What do you make of the quotes?
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