Congress sucks...

[Exterminator]

Don't know where you copied that from Mr. Willy but it's a bullshit lie according to the government's own data.

[mr. willy]

Don't know where you copied that from Mr. Willy but it's a bullshit lie according to the government's own data.

THEN PROVE IT BEFORE YOU CALL IT A BULLSHIT LIE !!!! WHERE IS YOUR GOVERNMENT DATA TO DISPROVE IT !!!!!

POST IT OR SHUT THE HELL UP !!!!!!!!

[followsthewolf]

Another example of inability to attribute reference information. Defective intellect (inability to learn) and deficient education.

Tsk, tsk. Screaming, too.

Subject doesn't know that one cannot disprove a negative.

[Locutus]

Don't know where you copied that from Mr. Willy but it's a bullshit lie according to the government's own data.

He got from here:

Link

[mr. willy]

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Don't know where you copied that from Mr. Willy but it's a bullshit lie according to the government's own data.


THEN PROVE IT BEFORE YOU CALL IT A BULLSHIT LIE !!!! WHERE IS YOUR GOVERNMENT DATA TO DISPROVE IT !!!!!

POST IT OR SHUT THE HELL UP !!!!!!!!

Again where is the prove it's a lie ??????????????????????

[Locutus]

Simmer down there Willy.  Ex hasn't been back around since you made your original post along these lines.  He hasn't seen it yet.

[followsthewolf]

"where is the prove"?

Was prove where link be was zelda clearly.

[mr. willy]

THEN PROVE IT BEFORE ANYONE CAN CALL IT A BULLSHIT LIE !!!!

[followsthewolf]

Was prove to proof?

[mr. willy]

Usage Note: Prove has two past participles: proved and proven. Proved is the older form. Proven is a variant. The Middle English spellings of prove included preven, a form that died out in England but survived in Scotland, and the past participle proven, a form that probably rose by analogy with verbs like weave, woven and cleave, cloven. Proven was originally used in Scottish legal contexts, such as The jury ruled that the charges were not proven. In the 20th century, proven has made inroads into the territory once dominated by proved, so that now the two forms compete on equal footing as participles. However, when used as an adjective before a noun, proven is now the more common word: a proven talent.

SO NO ONE HAS PROVED IT TO BE  IT AS A BULLSHIT LIE 

[me]

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Don't know where you copied that from Mr. Willy but it's a bullshit lie according to the government's own data.


THEN PROVE IT BEFORE YOU CALL IT A BULLSHIT LIE !!!! WHERE IS YOUR GOVERNMENT DATA TO DISPROVE IT !!!!!

POST IT OR SHUT THE HELL UP !!!!!!!!

Again where is the prove it's a lie ??????????????????????

Hey mr Willy, calm down and don't let these guy's get to you so bad yer gonna pop a vein or sumpthin'. 

[mr. willy]

Hey mr Willy, calm down and don't let these guy's get to you so bad yer gonna pop a vein or sumpthin'.

[followsthewolf]

The prove is in the pudding. "I want more pudding!!!!" Said the wall people.

The proofs in the galleys are with the slaves on the oars derves.

And the mome raths outgrabe.

[mr. willy]

And the mome raths outgrabe."

I remember my old Poetry 101 professor reading us "Jabberwocky" in class one day and pronouncing the last word with a long "e" at the end: "out-grah-bee."

I felt violated. I was sure, just so sure, that the poem I first read in my aunt's old college English Lit textbook (found old and moldy in my granny's basement when I was but 14) had as its last word "out-grabe" -- rhyming with ... . Huh?

And that was the point. Other than Lewis Carroll's "portmanteau" rhyme in the poem ("wabe"), there isn't much that rhymes with "outgrabe," no matter how you pronounce it.

Carroll once explained, humorously, his concept of the famous "portmanteau" words used in his poem. But, like the piece of furniture they're named for, they can serve a variety of uses.

Last year, when I started this blog, I wrote about how George Boole discovered a flaw in classic Aristotelian logic -- called (I think) the "existential fallacy." In short, the terms of a syllogism do not need to exist for the syllogism to function. They can be abstract symbols, hence the name "symbolic logic."

Carroll (as math professor Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) was a researcher in Boolean algebra, nonlinear geometry and similar topics. He made significant contributions to the academic literature on symbolic logic. And "Jabberwocky" is his (I think, successful) attempt to put some of those basic concepts into language.

The "portmanteau" words in "Jabberwocky" don't mean anything. (I believe Carroll's own definitions of the words are knowingly tongue-in-cheek.) They are true "nonsense" words, in the sense that they have no sense at all. Nor do they need to have any for the poem to make sense. In a sense.

If we are to examine those "interstices" of language I spoke of back then in the post on Boole, I think we need to more fully understand Carroll's accomplishment in "Jabberwocky."

BTW, the poem is satire. Just what it ridicules is what's important.

[Sandy Eggo]

 

We need a lazard with a liddle... a lad... can you help us?

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