The topic strayed inside the 600 mile limit: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gEIzqoHa_dZfk5RZ-e16TJnv0BVgD9CBHLR00
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > > > And yes we have hijacked this thread. > > n > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > Clark University ([email protected]) > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > *From:* Steve Smith <[email protected]> > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group<[email protected]> > *Sent:* 12/2/2009 7:06:45 PM > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Game theorists hope to solve world's crises > > I also liked Glen's use of "Convicted" as the (active/past?) form of > "Conviction". It invoked the appropriate image of _jail_ as Glen pointed > out while alluding (alliteratively?) to Convinced. > > My wife is the master (mistress?) of deliberate, well-crafted malapropisms > such as this. She uses them unabashedly and without comment... it is up to > the rest of us to "catch up". > > Perhaps the best (at least the first I encountered decades ago when we met) > was her use of the term "excuse closet" where "excuse clause" would be more > conventional... invoking the wonderful multiple reference to all the things > one might stuff into a "junk closet", to "hiding behind a closet full of > excuses", to having a whole pantry (closet) well stocked with excuses. > > Is there a better term than simply "malapropism"? "deliberate > malapropism" captures a little more, but it is the "mal" that I object to... > it is more that the "propism" is hijacked or co-opted in a deliberate and > clever fashion. > > Carry on! > - Steve > > Quoting Nicholas Thompson circa 09-12-02 04:06 PM: > > > Glen, I LIKED THIS. I particularly liked it, though, because of the odd > usage of convicted (for convinced). Was that a sllip of the fingers, or > perhaps you are starting a new meme? > > > Thanks. I do it to highlight how stupid it is to put yourself in a > mental _jail_ ... to make yourself a mental convict by being convinced > of any one thing or another. > > > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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