Re: Chez Watt
- From: unrestrained_hand@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:41:46 -0700 (PDT)
On Apr 6, 8:18 am, Burkhard <b.scha...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Apr 6, 11:23 am, Jim Willemin <jim***willemin@hot***mail.com>
wrote:
Damaeus <no-m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:gc2jt4dp59uaehvkgd54abg24edboequut@xxxxxxx:
Reading from news:talk.origins,
heekster <heeks...@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted:
In the " TKO by Garrulity " category,
What is "TKO by Garrulity". If you're going to criticize something,
at least do it with something original instead of encapsulating some
vague concept you've constructed into your personal buzzword.
'Garrulity' is perfectly apt here. It means 'the quality of excessive
wordiness' (a trait I sometimes manifest, I confess). Heekster was
pointing out the - um - Germanic nature of the sentence in an amusing
fashion.
Even though I consider myself these days primarily Scottish, due to
the lenght of time I have now had the privilege to spend on this
sceptered island, i do have to take the greatest offence at this
rather crude, and in every sense of the word predictable, slur on the
German language (which in any case shares the label of "Germanic" in
the common usage of historical linguistics, a subject so beloved and
nonetheless mistreated by our dear ray, him of immutabilist creed,
with English, rendering your implied criticism self-defeating), a
language which throughout the ages has contributed many fine works of
literature and science to the field of human knowledge, not all of
which, by any measurement, displaying unnecessary verbosity or the
interminable sentences that are all too often are singled out for
mockery by people just like yourself whose deeper appreciation of the
almost mathematical complexity that its essentially Latin grammar
allows is hindered, and one might even go as far as saying prevented
- though I myself woudl hesitate to make such as strong assessment
without proper cognitive science reacher to back me up, ideally in
the form of peer reviewed papers - from a deprived upbringing in a
linguistic environment dominated by the tter absence, for historical
reasons, of declination of nouns, a technique that allows even the
longest sentences to be parsed and disambiguated.
Sir, consider yourself slapped with a soft toy!
You had me going until the first sentence.
Kermit
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