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by Ashton
6/25/20 11:01:26 PM
6/25/20 11:09:10 PM
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New Mc Sweeneys.. unimaginable a few decades past..
Seemingly thay have applied the ~early-'90s techniques I first saw in a Brit-program headed by a (once) Wunderkind Host ... teaching at edge of that techno; "Knowledge": was part of the show-title. 'Twas there that I saw physics, math symbols automated (..thinking) ..Wow--had we Had That, why.. ...

In that wow-demo the numerical/unit-sizes/colors! of variable-symbols altered on both sides of the essential [=] separator, as you inserted, what-Ifs?
Algebra, Calculus, some partial-Differentials ..other nested-dependent-variables ... Grew or shrunk ..like here.

McS takes the optics to Language (possibly inspired by? those 40-yo first examples I saw). Anyway I punt on atempting a better definition-set than the hasty stab; obviously: the teaching of (arcane-even) Language rules, habits and corrections via careful Academese-as-spoken: is superseded.

(Worst case: many might well forget how-to? extemporaneously): craft some instructive-tale so as to kindle [only a small flicker of initial Class-interest] into
---> a roaring, Let's hear Moar!

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Post #434,820
by drook
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6/25/20 11:40:40 PM
6/25/20 11:40:40 PM
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New I think you're saying ... you liked it? :-)
My favorite line*:
... the past exonerative tense, so named because culpability is impossible when actions no longer exist.


* Though taking just an excerpt impels me to mis-quote the movie Mozart: There are just as many words, Majesty, as are required. Neither more nor less.
--

Drew
Post #434,823
by Ashton
6/26/20 12:48:04 AM
6/26/20 12:48:04 AM
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New That line is indeed, Boffo :-0
And yess, these folk appear to be exemplars about applying the effective science Demo(s) sanely to the more-difficult on n-levels: daily Ranguage events.
And clearly, even more progress could find many (who thought.. "eh? it's too cerebral!) to get woke-up and smellin' the (Rose-coloured) phrases much more-better.

All as promps wondering just how many other sites might also be toiling? in the fields of Disinformation -vs- de-Fanging that scourge on the asshole of humanity.
Concur that they are striving for some new Clarity? (without any snark like: recall' Captain Clarity?') wayback when dinosaurs roamed ..just-beyond the perimeter of IWE.

Thanks for the Intro! it's now in my 'https' listicle, stored just off-screen-right: a one-line-piece of TextEdit protruding as, 'SAVE SAVE".
[Beats bookkeeping, and last I heard, that's the only word with two-'k's] :-รพ
     Time for the Veepstakes! - (malraux) - (55) - June 23, 2020, 09:50:31 AM EDT
         if Joe coughs out, who has the chops for a second term win should be the answer -NT - (boxley) - June 23, 2020, 12:28:56 PM EDT
         Simplest take, then.. - (Ashton) - (1) - June 23, 2020, 09:14:25 PM EDT
             At this point only one thing matters - (drook) - June 23, 2020, 09:56:05 PM EDT
         Watching Kamala Harris during the Kavanaugh confirmation clinched it for me. - (a6l6e6x) - (48) - June 23, 2020, 11:06:30 PM EDT
             It's essential to energise the youth vote - (pwhysall) - (3) - June 24, 2020, 02:13:43 AM EDT
                 Unarguable that.. a Sqreaker all the --> way to ... the last hours.{sob} -NT - (Ashton) - June 24, 2020, 05:13:12 PM EDT
                 Rachel Bitecofer says things are so polarized in the USA now that... - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 25, 2020, 12:13:14 AM EDT
                     The numbers don't lie - (drook) - June 25, 2020, 12:15:32 AM EDT
             I like Kamala too, but... - (Another Scott) - (5) - June 25, 2020, 12:20:20 AM EDT
                 But who's better? - (pwhysall) - (3) - June 25, 2020, 04:53:37 AM EDT
                     dick_nixon likes Warren. - (Another Scott) - (1) - June 25, 2020, 10:15:44 AM EDT
                         Re: dick_nixon likes Warren. - (pwhysall) - June 25, 2020, 12:24:34 PM EDT
                     I like bottoms - (boxley) - June 25, 2020, 01:13:00 PM EDT
                 She's certainly a lightweight when it comes to the English language (see below) -NT - (mmoffitt) - June 25, 2020, 08:30:35 AM EDT
             There was one thing about her questioning I found profoundly troubling. - (mmoffitt) - (37) - June 25, 2020, 08:29:36 AM EDT
                 My God! That's the most disturbing thing I've ever heard! -NT - (drook) - (17) - June 25, 2020, 09:00:20 AM EDT
                     I KNOW!!1 -NT - (Another Scott) - (16) - June 25, 2020, 10:16:21 AM EDT
                         If we've learned nothing from Covid, we should have learned that incompetence kills. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (15) - June 25, 2020, 11:28:27 AM EDT
                             Your standard for incompetent is ... not useful? Yeah, not useful. -NT - (drook) - (14) - June 25, 2020, 11:31:09 AM EDT
                                 Are you really that thick? Or are you just playing. - (mmoffitt) - (13) - June 25, 2020, 11:36:20 AM EDT
                                     Yes, words matter ... but *those* words are the ones you're hung up on? -NT - (drook) - (12) - June 25, 2020, 12:32:17 PM EDT
                                         As I said in the preamble, my father was an English teacher. - (mmoffitt) - (11) - June 25, 2020, 02:29:00 PM EDT
                                             That's a great endorsement - (drook) - June 25, 2020, 02:42:09 PM EDT
                                             You're an odd duck, Mike. - (malraux) - (9) - June 25, 2020, 03:15:32 PM EDT
                                                 Merriam-Webster recently admitted that: Yes, they Do make MIstreaks (too) - (Ashton) - (8) - June 25, 2020, 04:42:20 PM EDT
                                                     Infer can be used active - (drook) - (5) - June 25, 2020, 04:47:53 PM EDT
                                                         Sorry, but.. [edited] - (Ashton) - (4) - June 25, 2020, 05:12:48 PM EDT
                                                             One of us doesn't know what "passive voice" means - (drook) - (3) - June 25, 2020, 08:32:00 PM EDT
                                                                 Mc Sweeneys.. unimaginable a few decades past.. - (Ashton) - (2) - June 25, 2020, 11:09:10 PM EDT
                                                                     I think you're saying ... you liked it? :-) - (drook) - (1) - June 25, 2020, 11:40:40 PM EDT
                                                                         That line is indeed, Boffo :-0 - (Ashton) - June 26, 2020, 12:48:04 AM EDT
                                                     Addressed here: - (malraux) - (1) - June 25, 2020, 06:57:04 PM EDT
                                                         Well Done! (I'll nearly-always bow to successfully pellucid argumentation :-) - (Ashton) - June 25, 2020, 08:17:21 PM EDT
                 Am I to imply from your comment - (rcareaga) - (14) - June 25, 2020, 10:59:16 AM EDT
                     Not at all. - (mmoffitt) - (12) - June 25, 2020, 11:27:53 AM EDT
                         Whoosh -NT - (drook) - June 25, 2020, 11:31:58 AM EDT
                         Re: Not at all. - (pwhysall) - (9) - June 25, 2020, 01:08:29 PM EDT
                             Am I a prosecutor or running for high office? No. - (mmoffitt) - (8) - June 25, 2020, 02:14:34 PM EDT
                                 Ahem - (drook) - (2) - June 25, 2020, 02:43:03 PM EDT
                                     I took that as a joke. -NT - (mmoffitt) - (1) - June 25, 2020, 02:57:11 PM EDT
                                         Correctly. -NT - (rcareaga) - June 25, 2020, 06:11:26 PM EDT
                                 It's not. It's a slip of the tongue. - (pwhysall) - (4) - June 25, 2020, 03:55:56 PM EDT
                                     I'm not trying to convince anyone. - (mmoffitt) - (3) - June 26, 2020, 12:00:01 PM EDT
                                         The word has been used that way for 400 years -NT - (malraux) - (1) - June 26, 2020, 12:06:48 PM EDT
                                             As has a certain song, "I Wish I Was in Dixie, Hurrah! Hurrah!", er ;^> - (Ashton) - June 26, 2020, 05:27:46 PM EDT
                                         So, you did not sense that she had second thoughts after she said it? - (a6l6e6x) - June 26, 2020, 10:44:39 PM EDT
                         You're trolling us, aren't you? Well done. -NT - (Another Scott) - June 25, 2020, 04:52:02 PM EDT
                     I see what you did there. -NT - (Ashton) - June 25, 2020, 05:15:57 PM EDT
                 Oh, ffs. - (pwhysall) - (2) - June 25, 2020, 12:25:16 PM EDT
                     politically prosecuting unwinnable cases to get elected is a little worse -NT - (boxley) - (1) - June 25, 2020, 01:14:58 PM EDT
                         ..now that was Cute truthiness :-) ..try to Go-->there ... more often(?) -NT - (Ashton) - June 27, 2020, 02:58:59 PM EDT
                 (Always a pleasure) to acknowledge a cohort ..in One's Outlier-Club, oft despised by masses :-) - (Ashton) - June 25, 2020, 04:21:07 PM EDT
         for Susan Rice - (lincoln) - (2) - June 25, 2020, 01:33:39 PM EDT
             Quite a good Atta-girl! pitch (mayhap 'She' needs to be darker hued..?) considering The Times. -NT - (Ashton) - June 25, 2020, 04:50:48 PM EDT
             She's more than qualified. - (a6l6e6x) - June 25, 2020, 11:23:20 PM EDT

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