Posts by giovanni tiso
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I'm considering declaring him a god and setting up a religion, because the only way he could be any cooler is if he was tax-deductable.
Gold.
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Geoff: I have a greater than average number of legs.
Wow. If it means in these here parts the same thing it means back home, I bet you're a very popular fella.
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And I think I heard John Key saying New Zeend the other day.
Great. If Mark Taylor becomes PM across the ditch, we could forge an alliance with Straya.
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Not to be confused with Rofflennui
Rolling on the floor laughing, contemplating the vacuity of human life?
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Another less sinister, and yet also likely one, is that both journalists were paraphrasing and condensing the same source material.
When I was in high school our Latin teacher use to hammer us with homework, four translations per week and they were no picnic. So my best buddy and I used to halve the work, we'd do one each and then the off-duty guy would copy the work from the other before class. The trick naturally was to change just enough words not to get caught. That's exactly what the Boniface piece looked like to me at the time.
Except this was not a 100 word text that needed to be translated, it was a 200 pages-plus book to summarise. We could do a controlled experiment, get twelve PAS readers and ask them to summarise the contents in 300 words or less. I'm betting all of them would mention the central point that you can make Alzheimer's sufferers less distressed by co-operating with their fantasies, but I'd also bet they would all say it very differently. (As I have just now, for instance).
Although perhaps that's not really the point. The Guardian piece came out on August 2nd. Quite aside from anything else, Boniface MUST have read it before turning in her piece - or do you think the listener health columnist doesn't read the Guardian health columns? So even if she had decided to write about the book on her own, and had happened to write about it in the same words, then surely a nod to her colleague's piece piece would have been in order? But those are my assumptions as an academic, evidently journalists operate differently.
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'Tranzrail eyes'
I don't know if it can aspire to word of the year, but I'm gonna start using it at every possible occasion.
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Also, do we have a definition for rofflenui? Something like "big laughs"? I tried googling it, but it lead me only to this very thread and nowhere else! Surely it can be antedated to earlier than the start of this thread...
Sacha might correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he came up with it in in this comment.
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Ah, wouldn't that be nice.
Yes, outdated movie cliche obviously. In fact the new cliche is that you can't hide from the all-seeiong eye of national security, a-la Enemy of the State.
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In a threatening manner, old chap?
Is there any other manner?
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Okay: Anaheim fan, disrespecting my oral hygiene... I now officially hate you.
Said like a man whose team is running 24th out of 30.
The sound you just heard? That was me dropping my gloves.