Comments on: On second thoughts, it’s what you say http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/07/on-second-thoughts-its-what-you-say/ Some of Chris's musings Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:05:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Christopher White http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/07/on-second-thoughts-its-what-you-say/#comment-779 Christopher White Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:37:03 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/07/on-second-thoughts-its-what-you-say/#comment-779 "PIN number" drives me out of my tiny mind. I don't personally assume deaths to be inherently sad, necessarily - it's more of a kind of general consensus. “PIN number” drives me out of my tiny mind.

I don’t personally assume deaths to be inherently sad, necessarily - it’s more of a kind of general consensus.

]]> By: Squander Two http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/07/on-second-thoughts-its-what-you-say/#comment-777 Squander Two Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:20:41 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/07/on-second-thoughts-its-what-you-say/#comment-777 If we cut out superfluous words, we are left with truly crap language. Mind you, "extra bonus" really pisses me off. And "AC current". If you can assume deaths to be sad, you are yet too young to have attained a level of cynicism appropriate to this world. Without good information to the contrary, I assume deaths to be humdrum, pointless, self-induced, and deserved. If we cut out superfluous words, we are left with truly crap language.

Mind you, “extra bonus” really pisses me off. And “AC current”.

If you can assume deaths to be sad, you are yet too young to have attained a level of cynicism appropriate to this world. Without good information to the contrary, I assume deaths to be humdrum, pointless, self-induced, and deserved.

]]> By: Christopher White http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/07/on-second-thoughts-its-what-you-say/#comment-772 Christopher White Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:41:38 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/07/on-second-thoughts-its-what-you-say/#comment-772 See update for correction resulting from your first point. I'd dispute your dispute over "tragic death". I think it counts as a superfluous word, little different from "free gift" or "true fact". And yes, the Thatcher reference was infantile. But this is a very childish blog... See update for correction resulting from your first point.

I’d dispute your dispute over “tragic death”. I think it counts as a superfluous word, little different from “free gift” or “true fact”.

And yes, the Thatcher reference was infantile. But this is a very childish blog…

]]> By: Chris http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/07/on-second-thoughts-its-what-you-say/#comment-771 Chris Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:26:32 +0000 http://christopherwhite.info/blog/2006/12/07/on-second-thoughts-its-what-you-say/#comment-771 The third sentence about wedge-shaped films is in the subjunctive, not the futre conditional. And 'tragic death' isn't a pleonasm, even without the unutterably sophomoric counterexample of Margaret Thatcher. The third sentence about wedge-shaped films is in the subjunctive, not the futre conditional. And ‘tragic death’ isn’t a pleonasm, even without the unutterably sophomoric counterexample of Margaret Thatcher.

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