..but only for a trice (if his ephemeral 'state' is also attuned to the most modrin sources of idiot-bafflegab
{--about bafflegab, even, at times. Is that recursion or just a macro-lens?}

(BTW and anent the ineffable-Squishiness of all [referents] at the roots of any 'language', by-definition:
it has also seemed to me to be the case that, those who digitally-dismiss any concept of the ineffable, as perhaps seeming too perilously close to trivial icons for sky-pixies
-- may also have become inured to that Other aspect of human psych [dunno who said it first; assuredly it predates Snopes's grandfather])

~Language was invented that men may disguise their thoughts from other men.

So while your analyses in this thread are admirable / aka I agree with your conclusions ;^>
they are indeterminant at core issues, say ~~ "what relationship does 'truthiness', in a verbal explication on a topic, bear to
-- that perpetual (if foolish) search for Truth?" About any. thing. ?
We may have met both the Uncertainty and the Pauli Exclusion Principles of staid old physics: and they are Us.

(And if there is some soupçon of Chase's DNA within some spectre.. still.. out there assimilating the mouth-noises of various homo-saps, after all these years?
I do wonder what a now-even-Smarter Chase-wraith would make of the puerile disintegration of any general Respect for Language in 2010,
here in his old stomping grounds.) Oh well -- we couldn't 'ask It', in any event.


Carrion, O Snip of State