A rhetor is just a teacher of writing, right? But I want to pursue this idea of a Rhetor as villain. I think it has legs. So, suppose I start a company whose job is to go into companies and identify and fire all the people who are picky about writing. What would we name such a company?
I have idea, in case somebody else doesn’t think of it. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of u?l? ? Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 1:06 PM To: FriAM <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Unmediated perception - sheldrake Ha! "Rhetor". It's fantastic how you assembled those words so that "rhetor" seems so distasteful. I'm going to start using "rhetor" as a username for those throwaway logins I'm always having to create. On 9/17/19 9:46 AM, Jon Zingale wrote: > My favorite and perhaps most disillusioning was a talk he gave at > Google, where with maybe six people in the room, I had the privilege > to observe what a rhetor he was capable of being. Now, I almost never > think about him or his theory. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
