lol yeah my bad.
Nonsense Expressions
- Thread starter StrangerInAStrangeLand
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How do those flowers smell? I have no idea, I didn't realize they had olfactory senses.
How do you feel? with my hands, generally
Thanks, Fraggle. I did think it would be fun. But I'm serious also. Language & communication are important & I believe we'd communicate better if we'd more often just say what we mean & mean what we say. & See below.
Tim840, I'm well aware of the facts you presented. As for the opinions:You think PIN number & MLB baseball are pretty dumb & I think they're all absurd. In my experience, many people do not know half full & half empty are the same. I'm tired of people asking me such ridiculous questions & acting disgusted when I give a sensible answer.
Maybe you think everyone's as smart & educated as you are or you're accustomed to dealing with intelligent people but I can testify there are plenty out there who do not know or understand the things you explained.
Biscuit was a joke. But while mucking about on a farm, it would be much riskier to carry 2 baskets with 32 eggs each than 1 basket with 64 eggs.
Obviously things people say need to make sense most of the time or we'd never get anything accomplished. I draw the line at a diferent level than you.
Maybe you think everyone's as smart & educated as you are or you're accustomed to dealing with intelligent people but I can testify there are plenty out there who do not know or understand the things you explained.
Biscuit was a joke. But while mucking about on a farm, it would be much riskier to carry 2 baskets with 32 eggs each than 1 basket with 64 eggs.
Obviously things people say need to make sense most of the time or we'd never get anything accomplished. I draw the line at a diferent level than you.
Fraggle Rocker
Staff member
But they're not, and that's the whole point. Surely you understand that there's more than one type of meaning. The denotations of "half full" and "half empty" may be the same, but the connotations are different.
The complete statement of the homily is not that one glass is half full and one is half empty. It is that one person perceives the glass as half full and the other person perceives the same glass as half empty. To say that a container is half empty tells us that you are already focusing on the problem you're going to have when it becomes completely empty. To say that it's half full tells us that you're focusing on what great things you can do with that generous amount of liquid that's still there.
One person is going to spend fully half of his time with that glass of liquid worrying about what to do when it runs out. The other person is enjoying his drink.
And wondering who's going to buy the next round...
One world government. As opposed to a 9 world government???
Or when people say they could care less, but what they really mean is that they couldn't care less. Is it supposed to be sarcasm?
Lol
Here's one:
"It doesn't matter if you win or lose. It's how you play the game"
That's a bunch of bologna. You always play to win--- winning is determined by how you play the game.
Having fun while playing is a given. Games in and of themselves are forms of leisure.
"It doesn't matter if you win or lose. It's how you play the game"
That's a bunch of bologna. You always play to win--- winning is determined by how you play the game.
Having fun while playing is a given. Games in and of themselves are forms of leisure.
Ophiolite
Valued Senior Member
"It was in the last place I looked"
Traditionally, it has been observed that this is obvious, since you would not continue to look for 'it' once 'it' was found. I don't like tradition, so now when I find something I have been looking for I continue to look in a couple of more places for 'it' before quitting. I recommend this to everyone.
Traditionally, it has been observed that this is obvious, since you would not continue to look for 'it' once 'it' was found. I don't like tradition, so now when I find something I have been looking for I continue to look in a couple of more places for 'it' before quitting. I recommend this to everyone.
No no no.
I've just quoted something similar in another thread: It's more important to take part than it is to win.
I suspect that both of these may be (peculiarly) English (okay, possibly British).
They are about the concept of sportsmanship, probably cricket at that.
It was (and only slightly to some extent still is) far, far more important to be a "good sportsman" than it was to actually win.
The result hardly counted because the game was played for the form of the thing and how you played (not how well) was a test AND show of character.
Shoot! I made a list like my OP but fell asleep before hitting Post. When I woke it was gone.
Be careful. Pizza may be hot.
OK I logged in, made another list & hit the Post button. It told me to refresh & it lost my post. WTH???
"There's no 'I' in team." But you can spell "me" if you want.
How many times must I repeat myself?
Fraggle Rocker
Staff member
As opposed to more than one hundred national governments.
"One" stresses the hypothesis that we'd be better off with just one gigantic slow-moving tax-sucking thirty-level bureaucracy instead of dozens of smaller and slightly more responsive and efficient bureaucracies. "World" stresses the hypothesis that we'd be better off with a "one size fits all" philosophy being applied to Americans, Chinese, Nigerians and Azeris, instead of just Texans and New Yorkers.
It was originally sarcasm, said with that peculiar whiney, disgusted voice that's supposed to identify sarcastic speech. But it's lost the voice and people don't notice that they're not saying what they mean.
Why is that a nonsense expression?
