Welcome!

great idea, i look forward to visiting this space. -cassidy

Oh my goodness. I'm deeply intimidated just by the name of this room. And yet, and yet....I'll come back. How cool.

I think I'll have to wait for someone to start a thread, though, because I'm entirely unsure what goes in this room exactly.

What, all that stuff?

*boggles*

Now I have even less idea than I did a minute ago.

I will damn well think of something, though.

I'm with PeeDee on this one . . . I think I'll just wander away until my mail-order PhD comes in.

But, congratulations to Colorado Guy for the new position.

We can still belch and drop cookie crumbs in here, right? Right?

Welcome to modhood, Colorado Guy! You da man!

Welcome Colorado Guy!

MacAllister said:

Rhetoric, ethics, lit crit....go for it!

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ACK! Did someone mention ethics? Definitely not my type of room. I have no ethics.

Perhaps we should discuss the ethics of cookie crumbs in a public place?

Yay! Finally a place to post my questions like 'what is an ending' and parts of my literary theory book for critique! ^_^

Congrats on your modship, CG!

(is this where we can discuss William F. Buckley's use of purplicity in language as a class delineator?)

I hope so. Was ole Bill talking about Purple Prose, i.e. overly flowery, overdone writing?

MidnightMuse said:

Perhaps we should discuss the ethics of cookie crumbs in a public place?

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For a second there, I thought you said ethnicity of cookie crumbs....

C.bronco said:

I hope so. Was ole Bill talking about Purple Prose, i.e. overly flowery, overdone writing?

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No, that's just the way he talks.

Someone's got to start this, then.
The fun began when early man started naming things. So someone comes up with "apple." (And I don't mean Gwyneth). Does it lead to further scrutiny of apples? Further speculation and theory? Looking at apples, we now differentiate among their properties. Now we have McIntosh, Granny Smith and Golden Delicious. I think language enhances our curiousity and observation.

Like knowing the name of a demon in summoning. (Not that I do that, but I just read The Amulet of Samarkand). To paint a portrait, one has to notice every detail, see how the forms flow into eachother, find the light and shadow. We do that with words, therefore we must look closely.

But language also has the capacity to limit our thoughts, no? To allow us to pigeonhole as a type of intellectual shorthand which might prevent our analyzing further? Sort of like racism, in the sense of intellectual laziness.

Man, that thought won't be popular with writers.

I'm talking about words in general though. By nature they limit the abstract concepts they represent.

How so?