@dibblego You haven't used that word before... could you write a little about what it means? /cc @puffnfresh
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Replying to @dibblego
@dibblego@puffnfresh Ah, I get it. Sometimes a new word comes with a new concept and you just have to learn how to use it. E.g. "dialectic"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @luqui
@dibblego@puffnfresh (I use that as an example because it was a recent example for me. Language learning is full of these examples.)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @luqui
@luqui@puffnfresh Yes. Also notice that the nominally obsessed can't tell you a meaning for names over which they obsess. It's all pretend.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @dibblego
@dibblego@puffnfresh Programming is art and it is engineering. What use is it to argue whether E.E. Cummings wrote superior to Bell Hooks?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @luqui
@luqui@puffnfresh It's as useful as names are to convey meaning. Let the neurotic obsessors argue over whether one is better than another.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @dibblego
@dibblego@puffnfresh You are making sense. I imagine many of your combative tweets have sensibility beneath them, if I could discover it...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@luqui @puffnfresh Instead of "combative", think, "deliberately stupid, but slightly less stupid than the opponent."
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