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I understand how you do it but I don't understand why that is eloquent and poetic. I wouldn't want someone to constantly choose related but incorrect concepts.

• __derek__ 4y ago
  If you want labels for misbehavior like that, check out Grice's maxims of conversation.
  • 1attice 4y ago
    That you read unintentional variation as misbehaviour is like rejecting food not made at McDonalds. Actually, this is a great teachable moment. This is the crux of it. Engineers value precise repetition, what Deleuze calls 'mechanical' repetition. Writing, like cuisine, is about 'difference that contains its own differencing', again, as Deleuze put it. (Sounds better in French but if you chew on it you can suck the meaning-marrow from the consonants). Eloquence comes from the space between symmetries, which is why it's so hard for engineers to master. Indeed, 'mastery' is already quite the wrong tenor
    • __derek__ 4y ago
      Your writing makes me think you're a bot.
      • 1attice 4y ago
        And yet here I am, flesh and blood. I can't prove it; it's late 2022. Oh well.
• 1attice 4y ago
  You'd think so! But it works a little bit like 'constructive interference' in radio reception. A little bit of cognitive brownian motion does wonders to warm up tone.