"Orwellian, dude!"

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 11:26, pynchonoid wrote:
> Even considering Mackin's irresistable need to
> disagree with me, this is an exceptionally foolish
> statement. 


In case you haven't noticed I have grown very hesitant about disagreeing
with you because of the invariably foolish rejoinders I can look forward
to.


> Safe to say that the paragraph that follows Pynchon's
> Bill-and-Ted joke is part of the context of that joke.
> 
> 
> Unless Mackin is playing with a special definition of
> "context".
>  
> 
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote
> > You call this context? 
> 
> con·text    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kntkst)
> n. 
> 
> 1.	The part of a text or statement that surrounds a
> particular word or passage and determines its meaning.
> 2.	The circumstances in which an event occurs; a
> setting.
> 
> [Middle English, composition, from Latin contextus,
> from past participle of contexere, to join together  :
> com-, com- + texere, to weave; see teks- in
> Indo-European Roots.]
> Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the
> English Language, Fourth Edition
> Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
> Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights
> reserved.
> [Buy it]
> 
> context
> 
> \Con"text\, n. [L. contextus; cf. F. contexte .] The
> part or parts of something written or printed, as of
> Scripture, which precede or follow a text or quoted
> sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as
> to throw light upon its meaning.
> According to all the light that the contexts afford.
> --Sharp.
> 
> Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ©
> 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
> 
> context
> 
> \Con*text"\, v. t. To knit or bind together; to unite
> closely. [Obs.] --Feltham.
> The whole world's frame, which is contexted only by
> commerce and contracts. --R. Junius.
> 
> Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ©
> 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
> 
> context
> 
> \Con*text"\, a. [L. contextus, p. p. of contexere to
> weave, to unite; con- + texere to weave. See Text.]
> Knit or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.]
> The coats, without, are context and callous. --Derham.
> 
> Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, ©
> 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
> 
> context
> 
> n 1: discourse that surrounds a language unit and
> helps to determine its interpretation [syn: linguistic
> context, context of use] 2: the set of facts or
> circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the
> historical context" [syn: circumstance]
> 
> Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University
> 
> context
> 
> 
> That which surrounds, and gives meaning to, something
> else.
> <grammar> In a grammar it refers to the symbols before
> and
> after the symbol under consideration. If the syntax of
> a
> symbol is independent of its context, the grammar is
> said to
> be context-free.
> 
> Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, ©
> 1993-2003 Denis Howe
> 
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=context>
> 
> 
> 
> 
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