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Just dropped in to see if any cuneiform has been presented. I don't see any so I reckon the concretist doesn't know any. Can't say I'm surprised. I'll be back. Take care. Vern

To anyone who thinks language and writing are set in concrete, I challenge you to present your next argument in cuneiform and see exactly how many folks understand you. After all, if it's all set in concrete we should have no trouble reading how things were written 5000 years ago. But alas, language and writing has been evolving since the first intelligent grunt and the first cave drawing.

Even if one believed that rules are set in concrete, that still would not preclude them from changing since the hardest concrete still crumbles with use and abuse over time - and a jackhammer works wonders. Words change spelling and meaning over time. Rules adapt over time. There is an exception to every rule and with enough exceptional uses, the exception becomes the norm. But, hey, show me your cuneiform and let's go from there. Take care. Vern

Edited to add this excerpt on knowledge:
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Buckminster Fuller created the “Knowledge Doubling Curve”; he noticed that until 1900 human knowledge doubled approximately every century. By the end of World War II knowledge was doubling every 25 years. Today things are not as simple as different types of knowledge have different rates of growth. For example, nanotechnology knowledge is doubling every two years and clinical knowledge every 18 months. But on average human knowledge is doubling every 13 months.  According to IBM, the build out of  the “internet of things” will lead to the doubling of knowledge every 12 hours.
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With this vast increase in human knowledge, does anyone think language has remained or will remain static?

"Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!"  Well, it's one word when Shirley and Laverne say it, lol. Or, you can just use the first one. Take care. Vern

I'm not saying a "broken" glass doesn't fit the story, just that the glass depicted isn't broken as seen and to me personally, it would fit even better with the title if it were actually broken where the observer could see it. Just an observation and personal view on my part and I may well be the only one who would see it that way on a store shelf. Good artwork regardless. Take care. Vern

lol, yeah, that was by design. Actually have omitted it on very rare occasions before - though I don't think on this new site - to enhance the image presented. Take care. Vern

00: Women and then 007

This is all there was:

I wouldn't say any of those things, but I might say:
A bottle of wine from the cooler and two glasses, please
An ice cold beer
A hot bowl of soup or a cold watermelon or just, Food, I'm hungry
A crowded room or the room is too crowded
The church puts on a good steeple chase
A door-bell or the door has/had an antique knocker

Take care. Vern

Ditto the lol. Yeah, we probably will; at least till another subject comes along to dim the memory. I think it's a natural law or something right up there with gravity. Take care. Vern

LOL, yeah, after reading those first few pages. Don't hit me, don't hit me. Take care. Vern

So, let me throw something else into the mix here. Some writing has been called junk and supposedly "junk" can't possibly sell. My contention is that although the junk referenced by someone earlier was never intended to sell or even be read by anyone other than those participating in this thread, there are some books which some folks would consider "junk" which have done very well. My choice for a best seller piece of junk would be A Million Little Pieces by James Frey.

Admittedly my choice for junk received a tremendous boost from Oprah Winfrey who obviously didn't consider it junk and thus recommended it on her show sending sales through the roof. Of course, she later called out the author for fabricating the story which was supposedly a memoir, but what difference does that make as far as the writing being "junk" or not. It seems to me that the saying, "One person's junk is another's treasure" can surely apply to books as well as garage sale items, etc.

It's been a while since I read it and only finished it because I figured it had to get better at some point due to all the hype it received. Well, no, it didn't in my opinion. I recall it being rather unorthodox in the way it was presented also with weird capitalization, para breaks, and even one single word on a page, four letter word beginning with F and ending in K with a U and C in the middle (I could be remembering wrong of course). None of the strange style bothered me (just the story overall imo) but it does make me wonder about the "junk" status of anything being merely in the eye of the beholder. Just curious about other opinions on this particular book or one which may have had the same "junk" status for you, yet did quite well in the market. Take care. Vern

LOL Ahh, good one. ROTFLMAO. Take care. Vern