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Thank you for sharing this. It makes me question the extent that a dictionary is meant to make a person more literate.

ProllyInfamous 8mo ago
"You must learn the rules so you can properly break them." —paraphrasing Picasso ---- As blacksheep of an intellectual family (lawyers, politicians, engineers), I've spent the majority of my employment around fellow bluecollars. Despite my education (left medschool, decades ago) it scares my family when I speak in the colloquial jargon of my electrician co-workers. If I don't codeswitch back into the grammatically correct language of our upbringing, my brothers value what I have to say less ("what you said sounds dumb even though I understood you better"). Isn't the whole purpose of language to communicate the realities of World? As their brother, I think they mostly write to obfuscate intentions... I prefer the honesty of pure dumb.
- tolerance 8mo ago
  > "You must learn the rules so you can properly break them.” Paraphrasing a similar remark, I think I pulled from "sed & awk” [1]: A reference can teach you the rules, but they don’t show you how to really use them. There's the difference between reading the rules of a sport and actually playing the game. Tangent: I’m beginning to question how broad the line is between a “rule breaker” and an acute student of tradition at odds a sort of institutionalized inertia. Maybe this “Words with Spaces” guy is on to something. > Isn't the whole purpose of language to communicate the realities of World? As their brother, I think they mostly write to obfuscate intentions... I prefer the honesty of pure dumb. This may speak to the significance of the court jesters of the past. And perhaps the rise of virtue signaling today? [1]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sed-awk/1565922255/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sed-awk/1565922255/
  - ProllyInfamous 8mo ago
    "You may beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride..." [0] Copspeak for technically you're correct, but we're still going to fuck with you. [0] A cop actually said this to me (I asked him whether he was violating a 3rd-party's Fourth Amendment by questioning); handcuffed, he tucked a Miranda Card into my buttondown's shirtpocket, tapping condescendingly about my questioning his authority. And what a ride it was.
    - tolerance 8mo ago
      > “If the law is against you, talk about the evidence,” said a battered barrister “If the evidence is against you, talk about the law, and, since you ask me, if the law and the evidence are both against you, then pound on the table and yell like hell” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/

"You must learn the rules so you can properly break them." —paraphrasing Picasso ---- As blacksheep of an intellectual family (lawyers, politicians, engineers), I've spent the majority of my employment around fellow bluecollars. Despite my education (left medschool, decades ago) it scares my family when I speak in the colloquial jargon of my electrician co-workers. If I don't codeswitch back into the grammatically correct language of our upbringing, my brothers value what I have to say less ("what you said sounds dumb even though I understood you better"). Isn't the whole purpose of language to communicate the realities of World? As their brother, I think they mostly write to obfuscate intentions... I prefer the honesty of pure dumb.

tolerance 8mo ago
> "You must learn the rules so you can properly break them.” Paraphrasing a similar remark, I think I pulled from "sed & awk” [1]: A reference can teach you the rules, but they don’t show you how to really use them. There's the difference between reading the rules of a sport and actually playing the game. Tangent: I’m beginning to question how broad the line is between a “rule breaker” and an acute student of tradition at odds a sort of institutionalized inertia. Maybe this “Words with Spaces” guy is on to something. > Isn't the whole purpose of language to communicate the realities of World? As their brother, I think they mostly write to obfuscate intentions... I prefer the honesty of pure dumb. This may speak to the significance of the court jesters of the past. And perhaps the rise of virtue signaling today? [1]: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sed-awk/1565922255/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/sed-awk/1565922255/
- ProllyInfamous 8mo ago
  "You may beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride..." [0] Copspeak for technically you're correct, but we're still going to fuck with you. [0] A cop actually said this to me (I asked him whether he was violating a 3rd-party's Fourth Amendment by questioning); handcuffed, he tucked a Miranda Card into my buttondown's shirtpocket, tapping condescendingly about my questioning his authority. And what a ride it was.
  - tolerance 8mo ago
    > “If the law is against you, talk about the evidence,” said a battered barrister “If the evidence is against you, talk about the law, and, since you ask me, if the law and the evidence are both against you, then pound on the table and yell like hell” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/04/legal-adage/