On Tue 24/01/12 14:15 , David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
My apologies to non-native speakers confused by my post :-)
My apologies for my poor English. Unfortunately we're so used to other "modest proposals" enacted as law even if they are obviously bad jokes, that one gets in the habit of too literal reading...
On 24 January 2012 13:22, Xavi Drudis Ferran xdrudis@tinet.cat wrote:
On Tue 24/01/12 14:15 , David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
My apologies to non-native speakers confused by my post :-)
My apologies for my poor English. Unfortunately we're so used to other "modest proposals" enacted as law even if they are obviously bad jokes, that one gets in the habit of too literal reading...
We live in times where "modest proposal" essays in this field are appropriate. Endless material!
Of course, there's almost no idea so bad someone won't advance it seriously. Charlie Brooker quit writing his vicious satire of British television, "TV Go Home" http://www.tvgohome.com/ , when real television shows started getting that awful.
- d.
"If at first an idea isn't absurd, there's no hope for it." [Source: Albert Einstein, from the film '1 Giant Leap']
On 24 January 2012 14:31, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 January 2012 13:22, Xavi Drudis Ferran xdrudis@tinet.cat wrote:
On Tue 24/01/12 14:15 , David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
My apologies to non-native speakers confused by my post :-)
My apologies for my poor English. Unfortunately we're so used to other "modest proposals" enacted as law even if they are obviously bad jokes, that one gets in the habit of too literal reading...
We live in times where "modest proposal" essays in this field are appropriate. Endless material!
Of course, there's almost no idea so bad someone won't advance it seriously. Charlie Brooker quit writing his vicious satire of British television, "TV Go Home" http://www.tvgohome.com/ , when real television shows started getting that awful.
- d.
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