I'm glad to see someone finally picked up on the humor of misspelling, mispelt, in a post regarding the perceived improper spelling of my own middle name.
Would you choose the Omicron Ceti III life, as seen in This Side of Paradise ?
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I always thought it's French XD
Oh we saw it. It just wasn't, you know, funny.
More than you would ever want to know:
https://langnhist.weebly.com/queSera.html
tl;dr An English proverb in Romance words
Thank you. This.
Okay.
Your posts read like some college students programmed a Condescension Bot and set it loose. You might want to rethink your strategy here, as trolling warnings are looming in your future.
My impression has been that he's writing "in character" as his avatar's personality, Morgan Woodward's guy. But that's not a nice guy to play.
I knew an English Prof once* that would have called it "inflated prose," a term the Prof used when a (typically Freshman) student wrote fifty words in a half a dozen sentences to state something that could be more clearly said in a fraction of that.
*(RIP, Dr. Fulkerson)
Why would you think that we'd instantly assume Tracy is your proper name when you use a picture of Ronald Tracey as your avatar?
I tried to make that purple prose point to a senior (hs) student. He was Joe Thesaurus. I told him I did know what the words meant; they were technically not incorrect, but that I had read a lot of high-falutin’ writing in my day and his was just . . .off. So often it was hard to justify an A- or B+ to some students because they just hadn’t read/heard enough real writing, whether non-fiction or fiction. They’d have no usage errors, but the sound, the diction just wasn’t there. Yet.
Otoh, you’d get those reader-kids — I’ll bet there are just a few of them here, ha ha — who could SOAR! One of my last was a Brazilian exchange student. Ran rings around my native English speakers though he’d have some odd constructions.
I’m off in the weeds now. Be well.
Otoh, you’d get those reader-kids — I’ll bet there are just a few of them here, ha ha — who could SOAR! One of my last was a Brazilian exchange student. Ran rings around my native English speakers though he’d have some odd constructions.
I’m off in the weeds now. Be well.
Everywhere we look it's Tracy, Tracy, Tracy.
What a load of shit.
(For the record, that's the post, not the poster.)
I also have to question how anyone can read post #2 in this thread and find any ambiguity in where @Christopher stands on the spores.
Captain Ronald Tracey: "Direct, succinct."
@Captain Tracy 's posts: Anything but.
Back in my HS days, when cut-and-paste involved Elmer's, using such verbosity was a tried-and-true technique for stretching eight pages into that mandatory ten.
Seems to me, now that the federation is aware of the benefits of the spores and the solution, they could almost use it as a large hospital… send sick patients, let them get infected and gain the health benefits , then reverse the condition.
the spores would have a steady stream of hosts, albeit changing them out frequently. Win:win
the spores would have a steady stream of hosts, albeit changing them out frequently. Win:win
Sometimes I have bad days. I come home, change my clothes, put on the TV and throw a semblance food in the microwave. I get under a blanket and feel more alone. The world is shrinking, my apartment closes in and my life seems so small. Then, I open my phone, log on here and see things like this.Is that why Captain Tracey is misspelled?
And I remember joy.
No because eventually they'll be a bad crop and you'll starve to death because you haven't got any spare food.
I like the aspect of regrowing the appendix though. If I had lost an arm or something I'd be willing to go there until it grew back.
I like the aspect of regrowing the appendix though. If I had lost an arm or something I'd be willing to go there until it grew back.
Foolish Mortals,
Tray C is where one's amanuensis places all the correct words, spellings, and elements of pernicious higglety-pigglety unworthy of the boors collective paucity of perspicacity. Indeed, while you snuffle your snouts obdurately into the aged tenderloins of Tray B, a person here came before you attempting to disseminate light into this omnishambles. But you would not have it. I for one am all the more embiggened for it.
Tray C is where one's amanuensis places all the correct words, spellings, and elements of pernicious higglety-pigglety unworthy of the boors collective paucity of perspicacity. Indeed, while you snuffle your snouts obdurately into the aged tenderloins of Tray B, a person here came before you attempting to disseminate light into this omnishambles. But you would not have it. I for one am all the more embiggened for it.
Going back to the original question- and assuming that one truly has a choice (much like the choice between hiding from the Borg/ not visiting the planet in the first place as clarified by the topic starter).
I'm not sure what I would do. The idea that I wouldn't be able to have my own priorities and goals anymore would scare me. On the other hand, I'm not even really sure I'm 'I' and I have true free will to choose to want what it is I want in my current condition- in other words that my so-called free will isn't an illusion in the first place.
I'm not sure what I would do. The idea that I wouldn't be able to have my own priorities and goals anymore would scare me. On the other hand, I'm not even really sure I'm 'I' and I have true free will to choose to want what it is I want in my current condition- in other words that my so-called free will isn't an illusion in the first place.
No, because I stop being ME. I can find my own happiness. No spores are needed. It's why I've never tried any drugs.