--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long wrote: > > So, the point is, It's all wrapped too tight. Until a Long thingie makes > fun thingies happen. Thank you. Got it in One (-:
Thanks for getting the fun of it, despite the slight jab, meant not personally as a jab at anyone in particular here, just the TM/New Age tendency for people to think that they understand quantum physics based on what they've been told by people dumbing it down to the max. This seemed to be a linguistic tool to help determine what "the max" really is. :-) But as for the Up-Goer Five Editor, I have been having SO much fun with it, sitting in this pub on a rainy afternoon. I think it's a marvelous concept -- trying to express complicated things in the most simple language possible. I've been amusing myself the last five minutes by trying to use it to write Bad Poetry. These are what I came up with so far: afternoon blonde beautiful face, beautiful mind cool crazy conversation then boyfriend appears brought down but only for a moment because it was a damned nice conversation and now still is Up-Goer Question: How does one repeat the hundred hundred names of God in only ten hundred words? how to wake up is not the question the game is more how to stop dreaming that you are asleep to question is to wake up to answer is to dream There once was a lady from somewhere Who had herself a beautiful pair But much further up She was only an A-cup Full of air, with no real there there > ________________________________ > From: turquoiseb > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Friday, February 1, 2013 3:19 AM > Subject: [FairfieldLife] The text editor designed for writing to TMers > > It's what you've always wanted, a text editor that dumbs what you're trying to say down to the max by restricting you to the 1,000 most common words in the English language (really "ten hundred" if I were writing this using the editor). > > http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2013/01/up-goer-five.html? > > To show how this would be useful when communicating to TMers who want to believe that if you dumb something down enough that they can understand it they actually understand it, here's the editor describing string theory... :-) > > "Things are made of small bits. Some of the bits are made of even > smaller bits. There are many different kinds of bits. Even light is made > of very small bits flying very fast. If we look carefully at the > smallest kinds of bits they look like little points. But we don't really > know if this is true, because the bits are very small and it is hard to > look at things that are so small. > It turns out that we know how to make most things out of point-bits, > but one thing is hard. We know everything falls down -- or actually > everything always falls towards everything else. The force that does > this is hard to make out of little point-bits -- if we try to do this we > get too many little point-bits flying around. There is one way to fix > it: we realize that the little bits are actually not points but long > things! The long things are wrapped tight and it is hard to see them > because they are so small and a very small wrapped long thing looks just like a point. > But then the long things make fun things happen. The force that makes things > fall comes out! Wow! And all kinds of other things too! In fact > all the different kinds of bits that we see come from just one kind of > wrapped long thing moving in different ways. This is great! One idea > explains many different things and so we are happy. There are some > little problems still but we are working hard and it is possible that > everything around us -- in space, near by, all of it -- can be understood > from one simple idea of wrapped long things." >
