Ah yes, the red pen! My work was bloodied often by the regurgitator. On Saturday, October 25, 2014 9:55:02 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > Elander turns out to be alien. > > Experimental language is tough - if it's not dull and boring with the > enthusiast twist demanded in teacher training, it just can't be factual. > Education must be done in the hair-shirt of seriousness and that > patronising politesse that assumes the audience stupid enough to think of > Thursdays doing anything. There's an allusion to modal (many worlds) > logic, though the English teacher, with no real conception of logics would > red pen on the grammar and politesse she soaked up from another English > teacher. Manners and habits=learning might be seen by the alien as part of > our self-destruction. > > On Friday, October 24, 2014 11:49:32 PM UTC+1, archytas wrote: >> >> Thursdays would find Elander Borg serving crusty bread and pea and ham >> soup in the work's canteen. Point out grammatical errors in this, and >> Elander would suggest a speedy experience of sex and outbound travel to a >> land where people expected Thursdays to have consciousness. Meaning had >> little to do with the red pens of English teachers. What decent person >> would teach a language with prime directives of ambiguity and deception? >> You needed statistics for reliable communing. This was much more exciting >> than literature fixated on surfacing women's sexual repression and endless >> copies of Attic tragedy, matters all Greek to a Swede. >> >> On Friday, October 24, 2014 11:06:08 PM UTC+1, archytas wrote: >>> >>> This is what happens when you read most of your books on the toilet. >>> >>> On Friday, October 24, 2014 8:14:03 PM UTC+1, facilitator wrote: >>>> >>>> OMG! Neil how is it you can be brilliant and hilarious at the same >>>> time? Although now, after some thought, I think many comics are closet >>>> geniuses. >>>> >>>>
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