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20 most recent comments by zodiac (2121-2140) and replies
| Re: a comment on Quest! by ?-Dave_Mysterious-? |
20-Nov-04/10:57 PM |
I'd thought you might say that. Still, "base 35, where digits above 9 are written using letters A - Z" seems clearly intended to mean the value 10 is expressed using A, 11 with B, 12 with C, and so on without skipping letters to Z. You're backtracking. An gentleman would at least blame the help.
It's been five years since I studied Maths, meaning eight years since I last saw bases. Checking my transcipt, I find I made dismal grades in everything except Intro to Logic and Proof. Lately, I'm even embarrassed about that.
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| Re: a comment on Dictionary Lesson by Dovina |
20-Nov-04/1:52 AM |
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Furthermore, the idea that my poems are somehow lacking in feeling while yours aren't is total gobble. For one thing, you haven't used any of these "feeling phrases" in your poems: "unbearable ache", "sensationally drunk", "splendorous", "harem smell of disinterest", or "dying wind" - while I have.
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| Re: a comment on This is Bad by newagepoet2000 |
20-Nov-04/1:05 AM |
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A really cool thing to do is read all the poems on the Worst List and say, "Man, these ARE bad poems!"
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| Re: a comment on Dictionary Lesson by Dovina |
20-Nov-04/1:02 AM |
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How about, Because Dovina's life doesn't follow any sort of logic! QED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1!!!!!11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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| Re: a comment on Dictionary Lesson by Dovina |
20-Nov-04/12:59 AM |
No I'm not.
1) Since we're talking about an imaginary transformation, it's not like it fucking matters, but if I were told to reverse all the terms of "x > 1", I would answer "1 < x". The statement "I love you" is roughly equivalent.
2) One would be tempted to say the opposite of "a Negro man" is "a White man". Unfortunately, no one but the most floundering duff would say something like that. For one thing, it implies a polarity between Negro Man and White Man which doesn't really exist. The real opposite of "a Negro man" is "a non-Negro Man".
Look at it this way: The statement "I love you" can easily be rewritten as "The statement 'I love you' is true". What's the diametric opposite of that? ANSWER: "The statement 'I love you' is false", or "I don't love you."
3) What's so fucking hard to understand about the following?
con·trar·y ( P ) Pronunciation Key (kntrr)
adj.
Opposed, as in character or purpose
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Opposite in direction or position: Our boat took a course contrary to theirs. See Synonyms at opposite.
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Something that is opposite or contrary.
Either of two opposing or contrary things:
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Ergo, the words "reciprocal", "contrary", "opposite" and "reverses" as used in your poem are expressing THE EXACT SAME THING!!!
4) Ibid.
5) Ibid.
6) "My dictionary, read in the feeling of the time, is..." means something totally different from "I realized my dictionary is...". In fact, that's more-or-less the revision suggestion I made earlier. I'm not arguing your meaning, I'm arguing that what you said in the poem is different from your meaning. You've essentially just agreed.
7) I agree that my last couple of poem are pretty feelingless. I've been trying for something different and not acheiving it. Before that, my posts kick your posts' asses. Anyway, you're just saying that because I don't "feel" your poems. BUT ISN'T THERE ANOTHER POSSIBILITY???!?! THAT YOUR POEMS AREN'T VERY GOOD AT RELATING FEELING?!!?! YES!!!!!!
8) I count only two "reverses" in this poem: from "I love you" to "you love me", and from "I love you" to "I don't love (or hate) you". Ergo, your going on about "its many reverses" is a load of guff. Ergo, you're something like saying "Earlier it was light, but now it's dark. I have a hangover. My experience of the world is an unending devolution." Bow'ls.
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| Re: a comment on Dear George Bush by scitz |
20-Nov-04/12:25 AM |
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This is the best comment ever.
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| Re: a comment on Quest! by ?-Dave_Mysterious-? |
20-Nov-04/12:22 AM |
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Is this an example of what you learned in over 20 years speaking English? Splooge!
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| Re: a comment on Quest! by ?-Dave_Mysterious-? |
20-Nov-04/12:13 AM |
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| Re: a comment on Moses by Dovina |
19-Nov-04/6:45 AM |
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You're both wrong. He saw it from Mount Nebo, in Jordan.
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| Re: a comment on Quest! by ?-Dave_Mysterious-? |
19-Nov-04/6:44 AM |
Look at the year "1M9". 1 is in the hundreds' place. M is in the tens, and 9 is in the ones. That gives you 1 hundred, 22 tens, and 9 ones, or 1 + 22(10) + 9, or the year 329. Ergo, what the fuck are you on about? Mastery, indeed.
I'm afraid, though, we're all horribly mistaken calling it base-35. A base "where digits above 9 are written using letters A - Z" is BASE-36, since zero counts as one of the digits, the way a base using the positive digits up to nine is base-10.
I blame -=Dark_Angel=-,P.I.
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| Re: a comment on Quest! by ?-Dave_Mysterious-? |
19-Nov-04/6:36 AM |
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Oops. And in the online "novelization", it's spelled "jigowatts".
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| Re: a comment on Dictionary Lesson by Dovina |
19-Nov-04/6:33 AM |
1) Yes, but the reverse of "love" is best "is/are loved by". Therefore the reverse of "I love you" is "You are loved by me."
2) The diametric opposite of "I love you" is still "I don't love you", the same way the diametric opposite of, say, "object X is a square" isn't "object X is a circle"; it's "object X is not a square." Whatever the hell you mean by diametric. Even richa says so below.
3) Since you're using dictionary.com, try this: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=contrary
4) Your a turd. How's that for logical correctness? Language is mathmatical, and math is a language. Being a math undergrad for three years taught me to use language more precisely, in a way being an English major for seven years never did. And need I say you couldn't convincingly relate the experience of a turd to a turdbowl? What you imagine is the "life" related in your poems is only intelligible to yourself, and only glancingly so.
5) Again, this poem is trying to be a philosophy/math poem. You've filled it up with philosophy gobble which you don't get. When we held you to the standards you set for it by doing so, you said "oh no, it isn't a philosophy poem, it's felt life." Bow'ls.
6) Answer my fucking point about the "history written ahead of the fact." All you've said is I'm complaining about it. Well, duh!
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| Re: a comment on Quest! by ?-Dave_Mysterious-? |
18-Nov-04/12:04 AM |
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| Re: a comment on Quest! by ?-Dave_Mysterious-? |
17-Nov-04/11:56 PM |
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| Re: a comment on To Leave a Trace by Dovina |
17-Nov-04/10:56 PM |
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You just think that because you type much more slowly than I do.
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| Re: a comment on Mice by MacFrantic |
17-Nov-04/10:44 PM |
re: "I'm glad you caught the metaphor."
You idiot. The title of the poem is "Mice". Presumably at least half of the metaphor is mice. A metaphor is supposed to work for both the thing it's superficially describing and the thing it's alluding to. richa said 'this poem isn't very good at describing mice'. Ergo, you've at least half-failed.
This poem isn't a very good description of people either. And ratrace/human metaphors are overdone. Now you've totally failed. I hope you're suitably ashamed of yourself.
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| Re: a comment on To Leave a Trace by Dovina |
17-Nov-04/12:29 AM |
The following, in no particular order are the unsupportable assumptions contained in the famous "hiding behind a computer screen" insult:
1) I don't talk like this to people all the time;
2) I'm not telling you the truth about the crappiness of your poems/personality/ideas about everything;
3) The people you do deal with face-to-face DO tell you the truth about the greatness/originality of your poems, opinions, etc;
4) The internet's worse for getting honest opinions for that reason;
5) I give a fuck;
6) If my username was my real name, I would somehow be more accountable for my comments;
7) If I were any kind of man, I'd meet you and we'd fight it out;
8) You're bigger than fighting with people;
9) You could kick my ass;
10) I'm secretly furtive and ashamed about the fact that I spend my time trashing people on the internet, so that kind of dis actually works.
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| Re: a comment on Dictionary Lesson by Dovina |
16-Nov-04/11:41 PM |
Of course your dictionary is a history written after the fact, since nothing that hasn't been done or at least imagined (in a few cases, like "teleport" or "anti-gravity machine") is going to make it into the dictionary (ie, "gloobzify", whatever the fuck that is.) It's just that all this relationship stuff has happened SO MANY TIMES that it's everybody on the fucking planet's history since the invention of language at least. That's why it's in the language. Anyway, you can fix it by just saying, "I saw my dictionary as a history written ahead of fact," or something such.
In fact, that will probably help with your last utterly ballsed line, too. A compendium of devolution???! For one thing, all the words you've picked out of the dictionary (reciprocal, result, contrary, opposite, reverses) don't of themselves make a devolution (cf, my example above, which only devolves into goopy smarm). They don't make a good poem about dictionaries, either, but that's not the point.
Secondly, if those words do make your life seem like a devolution, it might be because you've missed all these really ace words that are also in the dictionary (like "teleport" and "anti-gravity machine") and have nothing to do with devolution.
Thirdly, compendium and devolution are balls words to use in a poem. And this whole poem is based on your half-formed notion that anything transformed or described with big words is necessarily worse for it. Which is balls.
You're going to say I've proved that with my overanalysis here.
Balls. Your poem was bad before.
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| Re: a comment on Dictionary Lesson by Dovina |
16-Nov-04/11:40 PM |
As far as I know, it is, but only slightly. Then,
1) Do you mean "realized" in the second line to mean anything specific? Or just like, you saw that he loved you too?
2) Opposite and contrary are the same thing.
3) "I don't love you" is the opposite/contrary of "I love you", not, as you have it, "I hate you".
4) This whole poem kind of presumes that a thing necessarily leads into its reciprocal, contrary or whatever. Now, before you go shooting off, of course it doesn't say that outright. But things wouldn't seem like such a "compendium of devolution" if you'd just said, as I often do,
When I said, "I love her,"
I thought about the converse: "If somebody is she, I love that person," which is true.
And the inverse: "If I don't love somebody, then that person is not she," which is not necessarily true.
And the contrapositive: "If somebody isn't she, then I don't love that person," which is also not necessarily true.
And I saw the reciprocal of the original proposition: "she loves me,"
And the result was something like "We love each other."
And then I restated the original proposition, squared: "No, I love you, squared."
And she said, "No, I love you times infinity"
Et cetera et cetera.
5) Most of your problem is using the word "realized" in line 2. Yes, surely you mean "realized" in the sense that an ambitious guy "realizes" his potential or dreams or something. OR DID YOU???! But it isn't the word for the situation and it butches everything up. It makes it seem like all the transformations just follow the proposition, which is of course not the case. Besides, it's not even grammatical to say "realized ... with its contrary" (as you have).
6) You misspelled blurred.
7) Everything after that is worse. A nice idea, your dictionary being your history or whatever, but the way you have it is kind of preposterous and self-absorbed.
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| Re: a comment on Dictionary Lesson by Dovina |
16-Nov-04/10:52 PM |
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Stop plagiarizing that poem.
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