Comments on: Playing with words http://trilema.com/2013/playing-with-words/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 23:29:36 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: The Great Buck Howard ain't letting me sleep. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2013/playing-with-words/#comment-147500 The Great Buck Howard ain't letting me sleep. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 12 Feb 2020 00:13:55 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=49538#comment-147500 [...] he encounters the crisis. It's always the same crisis : the magic fails one day. And then he goes on, he resolves his crisis, he still loves this [...] [...] he encounters the crisis. It's always the same crisis : the magic fails one day. And then he goes on, he resolves his crisis, he still loves this [...]

]]> By: anon http://trilema.com/2013/playing-with-words/#comment-95257 anon Thu, 26 Sep 2013 22:04:25 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=49538#comment-95257 That doesn't solve the difficulty of finding suitable peers at the same level of knowledge while the number of such possible peers decreases because they are mixed with non-suitable, foreign, or even if there are suitable but don't understand you. Maybe you're immortal. That doesn't solve the difficulty of finding suitable peers at the same level of knowledge while the number of such possible peers decreases because they are mixed with non-suitable, foreign, or even if there are suitable but don't understand you.

Maybe you're immortal.

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2013/playing-with-words/#comment-95250 Mircea Popescu Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:06:42 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=49538#comment-95250 Well he's a retard, I bet you I had more Lego shit than he did growing up. Well he's a retard, I bet you I had more Lego shit than he did growing up.

]]> By: anon http://trilema.com/2013/playing-with-words/#comment-95249 anon Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:30:17 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=49538#comment-95249 My point was mostly contentious. See <a href="http://trilema.com/2012/cel-mai-popular-gen-de-manele/#comment-83239" >this</a> or in english: <blockquote>In a commentary for Handelsblatt, cited by Bulgarian 24 Hours, Lanschot, who has participated in missions in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Eritrea, is quoted as saying that East Europeans, most of all the people on the Balkans, have contributed nothing to European culture.</blockquote> <blockquote><b>"Nobody on the Balkans knows what a Chanel costume is, about the culinary art of Bokus , Pippi Longstocking, English gardens, Montaigne's Essays, Lego toys, etc", he writes.</b></blockquote> So this guy comes to Turkey, sees no turk ever masturbated as a child with a reddish plank girl, no one read Frenchmen and they were too poor and backward to have this plastic revolutionary toy called "lego". Try switching all this with "seinfeld". How do you relate with people to whom the cultural values you have are irrelevant but for you are the sine qua non? And how appropriate it is to explain particular behavior with more particular behavior, behavior of unknown origin to the receiver, to those whom never experienced none of that particular behavior? Well you can't, can you? In claris non fit interpretatio, in tenebris... ? My point was mostly contentious.

See this or in english:

In a commentary for Handelsblatt, cited by Bulgarian 24 Hours, Lanschot, who has participated in missions in Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq and Eritrea, is quoted as saying that East Europeans, most of all the people on the Balkans, have contributed nothing to European culture.

"Nobody on the Balkans knows what a Chanel costume is, about the culinary art of Bokus , Pippi Longstocking, English gardens, Montaigne's Essays, Lego toys, etc", he writes.

So this guy comes to Turkey, sees no turk ever masturbated as a child with a reddish plank girl, no one read Frenchmen and they were too poor and backward to have this plastic revolutionary toy called "lego".

Try switching all this with "seinfeld".

How do you relate with people to whom the cultural values you have are irrelevant but for you are the sine qua non?

And how appropriate it is to explain particular behavior with more particular behavior, behavior of unknown origin to the receiver, to those whom never experienced none of that particular behavior?

Well you can't, can you? In claris non fit interpretatio, in tenebris... ?

]]> By: pankkake http://trilema.com/2013/playing-with-words/#comment-95248 pankkake Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:30:31 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=49538#comment-95248 My point is that it hasn't aged, not that it is popular. Though it might actually be become more popular now that young people in my country become less horrible at English. My point is that it hasn't aged, not that it is popular. Though it might actually be become more popular now that young people in my country become less horrible at English.

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