"Orwellian, dude!"

[Paul Mackin]

On Fri, 2003-05-23 at 12:29, pynchonoid wrote:
> --- Paul Mackin <paul.mackin at verizon.net> wrote: 
> > 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.
> 
> It will become obvious when you stop doing it.

Nothing will EVER become obvious to you.  

> 
> In the meantime, you just look foolish when you let
> the need to argue with me back you into those sorts of
> embarassing corners.

Translation: You've aced me again and for that reason you get to be
called foolish and in embarrassing corners.


For many years now your only useful function here has been comic relief,
but how much comic relief is required per typical day on the p-list?

Five pitiably preposterous posts max.  

P.


> 
> > 
> > 
> > > 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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