UNBELIEVABLE: It\\\'s 03:01 am in Australia and the Senile Ozzietard is out of Bed and TROLLING, already!!!! LOL...

[Peeler]

On 20 Apr 2023 01:19:57 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Ah, yes, where\'s my \'An Enquiry Concerning Human Undertanding\'? Right
there between \'The Sprouting Book\' and \'Edible Plants of the Rocky
Mountains\'. I really should organize some day.

when I came home this evening and a neighborhood cat who had been
sauntering south did an about face and ran down my driveway I assume the
cat inferred a blue car meant the possibility of food.

Hey, nutter! Time for you to TAKE YOUR MEDS, again!!!! LOL

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was doing. Cats do not do well going down aluminum ladders.\"
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[SteveW]

On 20/04/2023 02:19, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:58:00 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Not Popperian. More Hume who formalised the \'problem of induction\'.

Ah, yes, where\'s my \'An Enquiry Concerning Human Undertanding\'? Right
there between \'The Sprouting Book\' and \'Edible Plants of the Rocky
Mountains\'. I really should organize some day.

when I came home this evening and a neighborhood cat who had been
sauntering south did an about face and ran down my driveway I assume the
cat inferred a blue car meant the possibility of food.

Cats are usually a lot more discerning than that. They can clearly hear
differences that we cannot. Ours show no interest in passing cars, but
as soon as one of ours approaches, even before they can possibly see it
from where they are, they are ready and waiting. Well it\'s either that
or they are psychic.

 

[rbowman]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:31:04 +0100, SteveW wrote:

Cats are usually a lot more discerning than that. They can clearly hear
differences that we cannot. Ours show no interest in passing cars, but
as soon as one of ours approaches, even before they can possibly see it
from where they are, they are ready and waiting. Well it\'s either that
or they are psychic.

Definitely. These are random community cats but I had one who was a full
time resident. I\'d drive in with either the car or one of the bikes and he
would appear from nowhere.

 

[Peeler]

On 21 Apr 2023 05:08:41 GMT, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent Speed, the
auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

Definitely. These are random community cats but I had one who was a full
time resident. I\'d drive in with either the car or one of the bikes and he
would appear from nowhere.

Fuck of to some cats newsgroups, you disgusting senile gossip!

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\"It\'s been years since I\'ve been in a fast food burger joint but I used
to like Wendy\'s because they had a salad bar and baked potatoes.\"
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[The Natural Philosopher]

On 20/04/2023 17:31, SteveW wrote:

On 20/04/2023 02:19, rbowman wrote:
On Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:58:00 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Not Popperian. More Hume who formalised the \'problem of induction\'.

Ah, yes, where\'s my \'An Enquiry Concerning Human Undertanding\'? Right
there between \'The Sprouting Book\' and \'Edible Plants of the Rocky
Mountains\'. I really should organize some day.

when I came home this evening and a neighborhood cat who had been
sauntering south did an about face and ran down my driveway I assume the
cat inferred a blue car meant the possibility of food.

Cats are usually a lot more discerning than that. They can clearly hear
differences that we cannot. Ours show no interest in passing cars, but
as soon as one of ours approaches, even before they can possibly see it
from where they are, they are ready and waiting. Well it\'s either that
or they are psychic.

Animals do not categorise the world in the same way that we do. And
almost certainly not consciously either.

We have no idea what a world comprised largely of smell and hearing, as
opposed to eyesight, feels like to inhabit.

Certainly individual engine *types* can be readily categorised by sound.
And who knows what else a cat or dog hears? a particular rattle, or
the ticking of a stone in the tyre, or even the way its being driven,
aggressively, or in an \'almost home\' sort of way.

As to sense beyond the conventionally recognised, almost certainly. We
are electrical antenna with a massively weird neural network. Habitually
we are too busy talking to ourselves to listen to it though.

--
“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy

 

[rbowman]

On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:46:08 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

As to sense beyond the conventionally recognised, almost certainly. We
are electrical antenna with a massively weird neural network. Habitually
we are too busy talking to ourselves to listen to it though.

Fortunately all the important stuff happens before we supply the narrative
and pride ourselves on how rational we are.

 

[Peeler]

On 21 Apr 2023 15:42:33 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Fortunately all the important stuff happens before we supply the narrative
and pride ourselves on how rational we are.

Is it bullshitting time for you again, you abnormal trolling senile gossip?
<BG>

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\"Around here you have to be careful to lock your car toward the end of
summer or somebody will leave a grocery sack full of zucchini in it.\"

 

[The Natural Philosopher]

On 21/04/2023 16:42, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:46:08 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

As to sense beyond the conventionally recognised, almost certainly. We
are electrical antenna with a massively weird neural network. Habitually
we are too busy talking to ourselves to listen to it though.

Fortunately all the important stuff happens before we supply the narrative
and pride ourselves on how rational we are.

I fear not. Certainly not in the \'urban jungle\'

--
“The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to
fill the world with fools.”

Herbert Spencer

 

[Commander Kinsey]

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:54:43 +0100, John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:32:10 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:

On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:53:08 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Tue, 7 Mar 2023 11:23:13 +0000, NY wrote:


OK, so some British-English spellings have mutated over the years: few
people uses \"gaol\" instead of \"jail\", and \"disk\" is becoming common as
an alternative to \"disc\" - and not just in computing. Of course CD is
\"compact disc\" with a C, so British spelling rules there ;-)

Gaol always threw me as in \'The Ballad of Reading Gaol\'. I suppose it\'s in
line with Gerald and so forth. I\'m never sure about disk and tend to
alternate. \'Ax\' is another one. This newsreader flags \'axe\' but I tend to
favor that spelling.

Ax is too short to be a word.

\"is\" is too short. \"a\" is even worse.

They\'re not real words, they\'re just packing you shove between the real ones.

 

[Max Demian]

On 05/05/2023 13:49, Commander Kinsey wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:54:43 +0100, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:32:10 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:53:08 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

Gaol always threw me as in \'The Ballad of Reading Gaol\'. I suppose
it\'s in
line with Gerald and so forth. I\'m never sure about disk and tend to
alternate.  \'Ax\' is another one. This newsreader flags \'axe\' but I
tend to
favor that spelling.

Ax is too short to be a word.

\"is\" is too short. \"a\" is even worse.

They\'re not real words, they\'re just packing you shove between the real
ones.

\"Is\" is a verb which we can\'t really do without. \"A\" is an auxiliary
denoting a lack of \"definiteness\"; as opposed to \"the\". Scandinavian
languages use endings of word to denote definiteness.

Ancient languages used endings (usually) of words to indicate case,
person and so on. (Know any Latin?) English is somewhere between. We use
auxiliaries for case (to and for), and endings (usually s) to indicate
plurals. Possessives use either an apostrophe s, but can also be
indicated with \"of\" preceding.

I think Chinese and Japanese use auxiliaries for pluralising, and, in
Japanese, I think they use a different auxiliary according to the thing
pluralised. (I think that they only pluralise words if they want to
stress that it is a plural - which is why Orientals often don\'t bother
with plurals when they speak English.)

So it looks as if ancient languages are more complex that modern ones,
with all their inflexions. It\'s thought that the first utterances were
complete sentences and they were simplified by splitting into words
later. This facilitated analysis of concepts and enabled greater
understanding of the world.

--
Max Demian

 

[Peeler]

On Fri, 5 May 2023 16:48:50 +0100, Max Dumbian, the REAL dumb, notorious,
troll-feeding senile idiot, blathered again:


> \"Is\" is a verb which we can\'t really do without. \"A\" is an auxiliary

WTF has your senile shit got to do with the three ngs you keep cross-posting
it to, you useless demented troll-feeding senile ASSHOLE?

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\"It\'s the consistency of the shit that counts. Sometimes I don\'t need to
wipe, but I have to do so to tell. Also humans have buttocks to get
smeared due to our bipedalism.\"
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And yet another senile moment:
\"A fawn bowl will show piss a lot less than a white one.\"
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[Rod Speed]

On Sat, 06 May 2023 01:48:50 +1000, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com>
wrote:

On 05/05/2023 13:49, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 16:54:43 +0100, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> wrote:
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:32:10 -0000, \"Commander Kinsey\"
CK1@nospam.com> wrote:
On Wed, 08 Mar 2023 02:53:08 -0000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com
wrote:

Gaol always threw me as in \'The Ballad of Reading Gaol\'. I suppose
it\'s in
line with Gerald and so forth. I\'m never sure about disk and tend to
alternate. \'Ax\' is another one. This newsreader flags \'axe\' but I
tend to
favor that spelling.

Ax is too short to be a word.

\"is\" is too short. \"a\" is even worse.
They\'re not real words, they\'re just packing you shove between the
real ones.

\"Is\" is a verb which we can\'t really do without. \"A\" is an auxiliary
denoting a lack of \"definiteness\"; as opposed to \"the\". Scandinavian
languages use endings of word to denote definiteness.

Ancient languages used endings (usually) of words to indicate case,
person and so on. (Know any Latin?) English is somewhere between. We use
auxiliaries for case (to and for), and endings (usually s) to indicate
plurals. Possessives use either an apostrophe s, but can also be
indicated with \"of\" preceding.

I think Chinese and Japanese use auxiliaries for pluralising, and, in
Japanese, I think they use a different auxiliary according to the thing
pluralised. (I think that they only pluralise words if they want to
stress that it is a plural - which is why Orientals often don\'t bother
with plurals when they speak English.)

So it looks as if ancient languages are more complex that modern ones,
with all their inflexions.

Not always. The local aborigines duplicate the word
for plural, so Wagga Wagga. Wagga means crow.

It\'s thought that the first utterances were complete sentences and they
were simplified by splitting into words later. This facilitated analysis
of concepts and enabled greater understanding of the world.

 

[Peeler]

On Sat, 06 May 2023 05:24:43 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>

--
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cretin\'s pathological trolling:
https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/rod-speed-faq.2973853/

 

[rbowman]

On Sat, 06 May 2023 05:24:43 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:

Not always. The local aborigines duplicate the word for plural, so Wagga
Wagga. Wagga means crow.

Does \'wagga wagga wagga\' mean three crows? Seriously there have been
anthropologists that claimed the local counting system was something like
\'one, two, a hell of a lot\'. otoh I don\'t think Mead was the only
anthropologist that ever got trolled.

 

[Rod Speed]

On Sat, 06 May 2023 12:11:39 +1000, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

On Sat, 06 May 2023 05:24:43 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:

Not always. The local aborigines duplicate the word for plural, so Wagga
Wagga. Wagga means crow.


Does \'wagga wagga wagga\' mean three crows?

Nope, there is only two forms, one word means
singular and two means more than one. They
don\'t even have any numbers at all.

Seriously there have been
anthropologists that claimed the local counting system was something like
\'one, two, a hell of a lot\'.

Theirs doesnt even have two, just one, more than one.

otoh I don\'t think Mead was the only
anthropologist that ever got trolled.

Ours have hundreds of local languages, so it can\'t be that.

Tho there is this hilarious skit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BabaKiueria

 

[Peeler]

On 6 May 2023 02:11:39 GMT, lowbrowwoman, the endlessly driveling,
troll-feeding, senile idiot, blabbered again:

Does \'wagga wagga wagga\' mean three crows? Seriously there have been
anthropologists that claimed the local counting system was something like
\'one, two, a hell of a lot\'. otoh I don\'t think Mead was the only
anthropologist that ever got trolled.

I wonder what they say for \"two retarded senile trolls on Usenet having a
typical senile conversation\".

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\"I never understood how they made a living but the space where the local
party store was is now up for lease. It probably was more than helium. I
often walk over the the adjacent market to get something for dinner and
people stuffing balloons in their cars was a common sight. No more. I\'ve
no idea if there is another store in town.\"
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[Peeler]

On Sat, 06 May 2023 14:54:33 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>

--
Richard addressing senile Rodent Speed:
\"Shit you\'re thick/pathetic excuse for a troll.\"
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[Vir Campestris]

On 05/05/2023 16:48, Max Demian wrote:

So it looks as if ancient languages are more complex that modern ones,
with all their inflexions. It\'s thought that the first utterances were
complete sentences and they were simplified by splitting into words
later. This facilitated analysis of concepts and enabled greater
understanding of the world.

My wife studied linguistics at Uni - the origin and development of
languages.

About the only thing I learned from that is that there are no rules.

For example - plurals - we have singular and plural. One or many. Some
languages have 1, 2, many. Some add or change prefix for plurals, some
suffix, some use a separate word...

I just make use of her ability to speak like a native in 3 languages,
and have a useful amount of another few. We\'re planning a holiday in
Japan, and she\'s said she\'ll have to swot up a bit

Andy

 

[Rod Speed]

On Tue, 09 May 2023 21:41:12 +1000, Vir Campestris
<vir.campestris@invalid.invalid> wrote:

On 05/05/2023 16:48, Max Demian wrote:
So it looks as if ancient languages are more complex that modern ones,
with all their inflexions. It\'s thought that the first utterances were
complete sentences and they were simplified by splitting into words
later. This facilitated analysis of concepts and enabled greater
understanding of the world.

My wife studied linguistics at Uni - the origin and development of
languages.

About the only thing I learned from that is that there are no rules.

For example - plurals - we have singular and plural. One or many. Some
languages have 1, 2, many. Some add or change prefix for plurals, some
suffix, some use a separate word...

And some like the australian aboriginese use
the same word twice to indicate more than one.

I just make use of her ability to speak like a native in 3 languages,
and have a useful amount of another few. We\'re planning a holiday in
Japan, and she\'s said she\'ll have to swot up a bit

 

[Peeler]

On Wed, 10 May 2023 03:53:24 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

<FLUSH the abnormal trolling senile cretin\'s latest trollshit unread>

--
Tim+ about trolling Rodent Speed:
He is by far the most persistent troll who seems to be able to get under the
skin of folk who really should know better. Since when did arguing with a
troll ever achieve anything (beyond giving the troll pleasure)?
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