Hmm, I wanna try a translation

Posted by Stumbleine on January 17, 2001 at 20:00:51:

In Reply to: Re: thers no such animal silly posted by RB on January 17, 2001 at 18:03:18:

[please pardon my intrusion, I just think it might be fun to translate ;)]

From bottom to top, fires last. That is, the title was on stable language. [note: I didn't quite get this sentence]I misenterpreted your post so you can scrap that. 'Sides, it was s'posed to be funny and catch your eye and stuff, don't ya know?
Second, well you may be thinking out of what you perceive as the LCD box, but you are very much thinking in your box where things are absolutely and really stable. There is no stability, at least I don't think so and I've never seen it. So will you always seem to reach for an answer, a way that the world works? I ask you to. Except that it doesn't and we just ... well, get along by the seat of our pants as it were. As in the philosophies that work, of course you have a system this is perfect, all but the weakest systems are at least perfectly valid. I would say however, that the truth of your philosophy (whatever it is) does not in any way degrade the truth of mine or Aristotle's or Ibsen's (I know he's a playwright not a naked guy in a cave, but I think he displayed realism in the existential sense best.) The point is, while your beliefs are undoubtedly logical, practically valid, and metaphysically true, so are mine and no less so. I love to hear yours though, and I'm sorry 'bout the neuro-bio thing. From your response to Issac I assumed that you were pre-med in the neuro-bio field. My mistake.
Lastly, I agree that language is much more stable on the surface now than it was in 900 or until the advent of the KJV, but it is not by any means stable and were you to go to South Central LA and use your grammar then you would be wrong by the standards of that subculture. And were you to go to parliament it would also be wrong (American being a ferociously bastardised form of the Queens language). Hell, in Easthaven near where I went to school, were you to say "east haven" you would be wrong. It's "'st'aven".

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• Response to RB (thanks for the translation, Stumbleine) Bartholomew 17:23:42 01/19/01 (0)
• cool good job and thanks RB 11:07:36 01/18/01 (0)

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