Aussie Group 5: Another happy evening of multiplaying

[deity]

Just that they are less likely to be played but are equally important

[deity]

Of course when Hydey is more available we can start a 6 way

And then a 7 way with Makeo...

[Alexander's Horse]

oh christ...........

[finbar]

I wouldn't bother slaving over a database. The world's going to end on March 17th anyway.

Mmmm. On second thoughts, get as much of the database done before March 17th as you can. One day, post the apocalypse, someone will uncover it and realise there was at least a modicum of intelligent life on the planet. Exactly what they'll make of Hydey and Trev's brutal B.C. war, I'm not sure. They might even think it was that which prompted the apocalypse. And they will trace the origins of the brutal B.C. war to Hydey. Thus Hydey will be blamed for the apocalypse.

Of such is history writ.

[SuperSneak]

I've been outfitting my mini-van with a chain link windshield and steel plate wheel skirts, in anticipation of our new Mad Max world!
Just need to saw off the shotgun and put some animal pelts on the baby seats and I should be ready to go!
Which one of you wants to be my sidekick with the really bad teeth?

[Hydey]

Originally posted by finbar
Thus Hydey will be blamed for the apocalypse.

At least I will be remembered for something

[finbar]

Originally posted by Hydey


At least I will be remembered for something

Hydey - The Axis of Evil!

Mmmmm. It has a ring to it, but suffers a minor problem, given that an Axis needs more than one party involved in order to exist as an Axis, of being a physical impossibility.

How about - ?

Hydey - The Axle of Evil!

[DrSpike]

Not really that spine-chilling is it?

[finbar]

You haven't met Hydey.

[Alexander's Horse]

Or his ute.

[finbar]

Mmmm. Hydey and his Ute. Talk about an Axle of Evil.

[Alexander's Horse]

He has interesting view of speed limits - he told me 110kmh signs really say you can drive at least at 120 kmh.

[finbar]

Don't they?

[Alexander's Horse]

finbar, is it "unavailability" or "inavailability"?

[DrSpike]

The first.

[SuperSneak]

Here's an interesting article for the grammarians.

Shifts in Linguistic Surface Structures Lead to Different Paths of Association at the Level of Deep Structure.
Like many of the linguistic patterns defined by NLP, the concept of transderivational morphology comes from exploring the intuitions of native speakers. We have many unconscious intuitions about suffixes and prefixes as native speakers of our language. Native speakers of English, for example, will recognize "peaceful," "happiness" and "contentment" as well-formed words referring to a related group of positive emotional states. Part of the construction of the words includes well-known suffixes in English: "ful," "ness" and "ment." If the suffixes are switched around, however, the words will sound strange. "Peaceness," "happiment" and "contentful" seem like they could or should have meaning, but they are unusual.

Try playing around with words like Communist, Capitalist, Freudian, Christian, programmer, and practitioner. Switch around the endings and notice how it affects you: e.g., Communian, Capitaler, Freudist, Christer, programmist, and practitian.

From an NLP perspective, various affixes (prefixes and suffixes) could be considered to operate as types of 'verbal submodalities'. In fact, shifts in affixes are often highly correlated with shifts in the submodalities of the non-verbal portion of the inner representations associated with the word. For example, adding "ing" to a word, often results in the addition of the submodality of movement to whatever inner representation a person has for that word. Take words like "hand," "sled," "flower," "bite," or "sleep," for instance. Our initial representation of the experiential 'deep structure' to which these words refer is most likely an image or sense of some static object or event. Adding "ing" to produce "handing," "sledding," "flowering," "biting" or "sleeping," typically immediately brings in or increases a sense of movement with respect to the inner representation.

Try this out with some other words; such as "rock" --> "rocking"; "smile" --> "smiling"; "e-mail" --> "e-mailing"; etc. Notice how adding the suffix alters your internal representations.

It is also interesting to do this exercise with respect to words that we do not typically associate with the ending "ing." Think of some words like "phobia," "cancer," "victim," "problem," etc. Add the suffix "ing" and notice how your perception of the experiences or phenomena to which these words refer changes (i.e., "phobing," "cancering," "victiming," "probleming"). It is probably different than the way you normally think about it. It may even prompt you to smile or laugh, because it seems incongruous or unusual.

One of the main applications of 'transderivational morphology', in fact, is to shift our internal response to key words that constrain or limit us, by playing with the structure or morphology of the word. In the following exercise, for instance, words associated with problem states are "defused" by substituting alternative prefixes and suffixes.

http://www.nlpu.com/Articles/artic27.htm

[Hydey]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
He has interesting view of speed limits - he told me 110kmh signs really say you can drive at least at 120 kmh.

F'ing speed camera got me going 63kmh in a 60 zone travelling down hill, $120 fine

[Alexander's Horse]

Yes, I'm aware the Highway Patrol didn't share your interpretation of speed limits

[Hydey]

If you think its so funny then you can pay the fine Dad.

[finbar]

Originally posted by DrSpike
The first.

Preferably known as the former.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Hydey


F'ing speed camera got me going 63kmh in a 60 zone travelling down hill, $120 fine

How bizarre. There's usually an accepted 5-10% tolerance. The guy with the gun must have been down on his quota for the month.

[finbar]

Originally posted by SuperSneak
Here's an interesting article for the grammarians.

For people who, perhaps, need to get a life.

[DrSpike]

Originally posted by finbar


Preferably known as the former.

Hehe, I did think of editing it, but I was scared it would say "last edited by DrSpike blah" for a two word post.

[finbar]

Originally posted by DrSpike


Hehe, I did think of editing it, but I was scared it would say "last edited by DrSpike blah" for a two word post.

This system can vary, but it usually takes two edits before the damning phrase appears. You were safe, Doctor, you could have rescued yourself from ignominy.

[DrSpike]

I think it appears after one when the system is not busy, like European mornings for instance.

Edit: Is it timed? Let's see.

Edit2: It seems so.......looks like CW is right - never thought I'd edit a post to say that.

Edit3 (after more than 5 minutes): test.

Edit 4: BINGO.

[ColdWizard]

the edit rule is 5 min, iirc

[Alexander's Horse]

The phrase was "due to the unavailability of..." a person.

[finbar]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse
The phrase was "due to the unavailability of..." a person.

As the Doctor said, it's unavailability, and it's regardless of the context. As the article that Sneak posted touches on, there are all sorts of ways of achieving the same thing with different prefixes - unavailability; imprecise; disrespectful, et al. That's usage for you.

[finbar]

Originally posted by ColdWizard
the edit rule is 5 min, iirc

Yo, CW! How they hangin'? Is it a timer thing? When I've been updating statistical posts, I've edited numerous times within 5 minutes and the dreaded phrase has appeared, seemingly, triggered by the number of edits.

Edit. Mmmm. I just tried it on the other post. One edit, outside 5 minutes, the dreaded phrase appeared. Same with this one.

Bow down to CW!

[Alexander's Horse]

But what about "inability"?