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Scrivening Part 7: Show and Tell
Showing/Telling S ince the rise of movies followed by television, the common imagination has shifted from words to images, from logos to...
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Previously: Part 8, Trial and Error From Plausible to Proven The great dishonesty of Galileo’s Dialogue was to present a contes... -
TOF once wrote an article entitled "The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown and Down 'n Dirty Mud-Wrassle" which described the century-l...
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1. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown 2. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: Down for the Count 3. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown: The Great Gali...
Ah, my beloved students...
ReplyDeleteWhere does TOF lie? :P
ReplyDeleteTOF does not lie, but always tells the truth.
DeleteCertainly better than the "Geek Hierarchy", which conflates all four into "geeky".
ReplyDeleteMy quibble would be....social ability with who?
ReplyDeleteMost of the geeks I know are socially inept with folks who don't share their passions, but I've also been known to describe us as the pack form of nerds.
Really "dweeb" and "dork" only refer to social ineptitude; "geek" now primarily means the obsession with the intelligence only implied; and "nerd" primarily refers to intelligence (or rather, studiousness).
DeleteBut that doesn't fit so tidily into a Venn diagram. "Let's pretend words mean things they really don't, so we have one word for each slot!"
*Geek has intelligence and social ineptitude only implied, rather. The latter mostly being a function of the obsession.
DeleteMy quibble would be....social ability with who?
ReplyDeleteMost of the geeks I know are socially inept with folks who don't share their passions, but I've also been known to describe us as the pack form of nerds.