I am unsure as to whether this is ridiculously stupid, or incredibly smart. You’d have be either/or to make statements like this.
The situation: On the tube, two guys talking about the recent controversy regarding Celebrity Big Brother’s Jade Goody & Co.’s supposedly ‘racist’ comments against Shilpa, the Bollywood starlet.
Guy A: So do you think it’s racist?
Guy B: Well, it’s subjective, innit?
Guy A: Well if you look at the definition of racist in the dictionary…
Guy B: The dictionary is a load of crap, man(this is the point where i turn my head and actually look at who the guy saying this is)
Guy A: Well, it’s a definition innit?
Guy B: Yeh, but by some guys up at Oxford
Guy A: It’s the most accepted viewpoint though
Guy B: Yeh but it’s just the opinion of some academics though…
Unfortunately this is where I alight from the tube. Though I dare say that I would have enjoyed listening to the rest of it. I worry, sometimes, about the intelligence of people in general. But I suppose, in a way, it is all subject to interpretation, innit. The blokes who wrote the dictionary might just be telling their own opinion after all, and really, if you think the word racist means ‘pink elephant jumping over the River Euphrates’ then by all means, it damn well means that.
Deja vu. Rerun of old posts?
oh, oh, and ‘photograhy’, somewhere on your page. 0:-)
heh yeah re-run, forgot to archive this post and it popped up in April. Oh well…
photography?? where what? how? huh?
i just realised the photograHy thing. goodness. what’s it called when you read a word subconsciously without realising it’s msilept?
Aoccdrnig to rseerach at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
PS: Hwo’d yuo lkie to run tihs by yuor sepll ckehcer?
heh, yeh i’ve seen that before. is there a word to describe this?
I don’t know, O Bright Free One.
Brighter. Not so bright. Yet.