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#98210 03/10/03 06:59 PM
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I apologize for the confusion I have created.

hey.. Hey.. HEY! Cut that out!


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I don't understand the point of this thread. Would wordminstrel care to explain?


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Dear AS: Wordminstrel is making the kind of point I feel important. There is no goddamned
excuse for confusing "evaporate" and "condense". Water evaporates to vapor, vapor condences
to mist.


#98213 03/10/03 08:49 PM
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no goddamned excuse for confusing "evaporate" and "condense".

We're often confused.


#98214 03/10/03 09:32 PM
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I didn't read it any of those ways. I read it such that coincidence has a quality of misty-ness to it(someone did mention this early on) and that whatever it was that evaporated, faded into that mist. it did not become the mist. it got lost in the fog, so to speak.

I like the phrase "mists of coincidence".

so there.



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Dear Falsdage: Sorry to hear you're in a fog. I hope it clears up.Either by condensing further
to rain, or evaporating to invisible vapor.

Can you tell shit from Shinola? Gotta be careful about that.


#98216 03/11/03 03:01 AM
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What precipitated all this arguing?


#98217 03/11/03 05:29 AM
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it got lost in the fog

Indeed, eta. There's no issue with whatever decided to get lost in the fog. The supposed misty nature of coincidence, is however at issue. I believe that there is nothing foggy about coincidence, per se. It is the 'causation' of the coincidence, that is elusive. And so, an allegorical reference to its mystical nature, I can accept. As in, 'a mystical coincidence'. I would be uncomfortable with, 'a misty coincidence'.


#98218 03/11/03 10:17 AM
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I would be uncomfortable with, 'a misty coincidence'.

yeah, me, too. a little, I guess. but I like the idea of "the mists" of coincidence. I agree with Rhubarb that coincidence itself is mysterious, and hence, could be metaphorically "misty".

this seemed to become a discussion on whether mist/fog is evaporation or condensation, and I felt that that lost the sense of the original question.



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You guys are so funny. It's like watching an Abbott and Costello movie.


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