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06-05-2019, 10:10 AM
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06-05-2019, 11:05 AM
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Is ruling hard an endorsement or a pejorative?
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06-05-2019, 11:24 AM
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It's an endorsement, though not one appropriately applied to this piece, which is just ok.
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06-05-2019, 12:51 PM
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Thanks, Aaron.
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06-05-2019, 01:08 PM
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I thought it was very good but then halfway through I got bored with it and stopped watching.
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06-05-2019, 01:43 PM
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Look, Ann, it is Quincy's job to bring all these new and stunningly with it expressions to the Sphere, and it is your responsibility to pretend to be with him and pretend to understand them; to show people that the poets here are not a bunch of aging codgers. Comments like, "Is ruling hard an endorsement or a pejorative?" absolutely destroy everything that Quincy tries so hard to accomplish. Shame on you!
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06-05-2019, 02:16 PM
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Michael, I learn from Quincy. I have done so for a long time. He has given me Bozo and Louwbre and Jebediah. He gave me Hipster long before it became widely available locally. I owe him CHUDS. He broke my heart with Narc and I still don't quite feel safe with it. So when I saw a new one I looked it up before asking, hoping I might get away without betraying my ignorance. I found no clue.
In the end, I asked for clarification because I really wanted to know. And now I almost do. When I have heard it a couple of times in context I shall put it safely with the rest in the place where I keep them, like novelty spoons. I may never use them but I know what, and where, they are.
And is this not an Eratosphere tradition, this trading of terminology? Why, I have myself given Treen and Shadoof to Roger, Glabrous to Jayne and hardly a sun has set since I gave a new Hue to Martin.
Keep them coming, Quincy. Your Boswell waits.
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06-05-2019, 03:10 PM
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Ann - the second sentence of your reply deserves to be sonnetized. Or maybe a novella. Can I put in a bid for film rights? I can already picture the last scene, with the camera drawing back and back and back until it covers the house and the entire valley, and the viewer is left with the image of this woman with her drawers and chests and lifetime of expressions, each one wrapped in bunting (I must find out what that actually is) and carefully folded and stored. We've had many poems on the sphere - including any number of mine - that contained less poetry than those few lines.
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06-05-2019, 05:13 PM
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Quincy has always declined to define louwbre when I have asked for clarification, so please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it a synonym for "it rules so hard"? Or are there slight but important shades of meaning that distinguish the two?
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06-05-2019, 06:52 PM
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“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’
’The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean so many different things.’
’The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master — that’s all.”
― Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
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