On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:30:04 -0400, "Jeffrey Maitland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Also I think the fact that you think your were diteriating just goes to show >how dedicated you are to detail, and making sure you give the right advice >or ask the right question. [totally-OT] Not really, unfortunately. I found not long ago that I used the very same word eight times in two consecutive sentences, plus similar words and words with similar endings. Re-reading that phrase the day later it seemed like something got stuck in my brain while I was writing that. Sure more or less the idea was there, and IMO clear enough to be understood, but the form and the choice of words seemed incredibly poor. I was curious of this strange fact and I checked out other text I was writing in that period. What really scared me is that this word repeating seemed a quite evident problem. This *both* in italian (my native language) and in english. Googling for old posts I however found that years ago my english was even worse than it is now... but this repetition was not present (not that evident, that is). Needless to say I spent some hours googling for informations about this kind of word repetition problem :D Anyway after some time things got better. I always thought about our intellect being something "superior" to this world made of fragile bones and stinking flesh. However I realized that there's probably no real magic in it... knowing there are pills to make you happy is sort of shocking from a philosophical point of view :-) If you'll see me walking around with an esoskeleton and an happy face it will mean I tried the chemical approach ;) (don't try to understand this phrase, either you know what I mean - and you like dilbert strips - or it can't make sense). Andrea -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
