@JosephWeissman Few and far between are the occasions on which a programmer uses the word interesting to mean something pleasantly intriguing or even exciting, at least in comparison to the overwhelming frequency with which it they use it to mean something that is annoying, difficult, or both.
If I assume you behave like a subject, just like me, and the impulses I get from you across the great grey void are in accordance with this assumption...
there's so much that language, consciousness, perception can capture only the tiniest fragments
we're not prepared for the intensity of it, right? i think of dancing for some reason as well as sex. all the perils of love and death in the question of understanding another's desire.
How come both "being wanted" and "being unwanted" are both bad words. Yet, being "needed" and "unneeded" are antonyms?
Nobody wants to feel wanted, yet they all want to feel needed.
Compare these four sentences.
"As Nimdok was strolling though the New Brazilian Airport, he felt wanted."
"As a ...
our social relations are tissues of quotation; we don't relate, we mix flows from innumerable centers of culture -- barthes says something like this about "the text" but i think it's probably also the case for social and psychic scripts
i don't know, i don't want to go to the utter limit and say we don't know; maybe it's enough here to say that people and events put our own perceptions and identities into question
anyway -- sorry for this interruption, please resume regular language and cooking-related discussion :)
I mean, what if understanding one another was rare, exceptional, infrequent and without many equivalents in life? --This is maybe a peak or maximum of understanding, at the limit of our endurance
The intensities are too much for us to bear; beyond our limits
> There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
I mean, in principle, I think it's impossible. There's another ego; a face that questions me. A conversation opens up onto a world and future I cannot predict.
Hmm, I would think there are all kinds of facialities...
But the face is another kind of black hole or white wall of its own. The white face, Christ-face. Already a kind of majoritarian language: is the face male or female? Black or white? All kinds of binary face-processing machines
That the chat space overflows I would think in a positive way, though of course it subtracts a physical dimension
There are risks, dangers to deconstructing the face, of course; to escaping the territory guarded by Cerberus. --And they are madness and inevitable death.
McCawley doesn't say much about it, as far as I can see, but it appears to be a variety of the complex of serial verb constructions around motion verbs and their inchoatives and causatives, like the various serial verb constructions mentioned in this freshman grammar exam question (#4, restricted...
If you go swimming, isn’t swimming what you’re doing?
Right?
I would think that if you go boating, or go bowling, or go slumming, that in all those cases, it is acting more like a noun, a thing to do, not a way of going.
But I’m not real hung-up on what label to apply to an -ing word. It changes nothing. It is still an -ing word either way.
Right?
What are your favorite things to do? Boating and bowling.
I can’t see anything gained by calling an -ing a “participle” here and a “gerund” there. If you want to call it a noun or a verb or an adjective or an adverb, then fine. But why introduce those other things?
Well, a participle is basically an adjective that can have verbal arguments. A gerund is a noun that can have verbal arguments (just like an infinitive).
I'm just saying this construction is not very special or hard to explain in a traditional model, or one revolving around dependencies rather than constituents.
How come both "being wanted" and "being unwanted" are both bad words. Yet, being "needed" and "unneeded" are antonyms?
Nobody wants to feel wanted, yet they all want to feel needed.
Compare these four sentences.
"As Nimdok was strolling though the New Brazilian Airport, he felt wanted."
"As a ...
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