Comments on: An hero is he... http://trilema.com/2014/an-hero-is-he/ Moving targets for a fast crowd. Wed, 13 May 2026 21:24:53 +0000 http://polimedia.us hourly 1 By: I think it might be the case I'm becoming pretentious. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2014/an-hero-is-he/#comment-145243 I think it might be the case I'm becoming pretentious. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:55:08 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=54031#comment-145243 [...] Well then... I guess you don't. ———"We should bring back betwixt. Such a better word than between. Lot of good words starting with be, like benighted. I've been using words on a Dr. Seuss level!" ~anonwhore, cca 2019. [↩]It's true, by the way -- they do. And it gives bystanders quite the pause whenever I have them do it in public, on the street. It's a different flavour of pause than for instance when I make them carry heavy loads while I walk about hands in pockets, whistling : that usually enrages a small subsection of older women, whereas this is more of a medical-concerned "oh poor guy, he's got bones growing in stomach" or somesuch. People are more than willing to "explain" their environment to themselves, hence all the guessing. [...] [...] Well then... I guess you don't. ———"We should bring back betwixt. Such a better word than between. Lot of good words starting with be, like benighted. I've been using words on a Dr. Seuss level!" ~anonwhore, cca 2019. [↩]It's true, by the way -- they do. And it gives bystanders quite the pause whenever I have them do it in public, on the street. It's a different flavour of pause than for instance when I make them carry heavy loads while I walk about hands in pockets, whistling : that usually enrages a small subsection of older women, whereas this is more of a medical-concerned "oh poor guy, he's got bones growing in stomach" or somesuch. People are more than willing to "explain" their environment to themselves, hence all the guessing. [...]

]]> By: A putea, putere on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2014/an-hero-is-he/#comment-140485 A putea, putere on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 12:47:24 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=54031#comment-140485 [...] to "El spune des pot". So there you have it, when people do that damaging, vile and offensive "try and figure what things mean in context" they're not thinking of a puny creole. They're thinking of a fully featured, European (which [...] [...] to "El spune des pot". So there you have it, when people do that damaging, vile and offensive "try and figure what things mean in context" they're not thinking of a puny creole. They're thinking of a fully featured, European (which [...]

]]> By: No, you don't have something to say on the topic. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. http://trilema.com/2014/an-hero-is-he/#comment-140320 No, you don't have something to say on the topic. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. Tue, 07 Jan 2020 01:15:35 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=54031#comment-140320 [...] predictable failures of entropy. Ie, what decontextualized peons call "logic". [↩]Oh how many countless ways there are to measure wrong. Or to not understand what you've measured. [↩]Yet [...] [...] predictable failures of entropy. Ie, what decontextualized peons call "logic". [↩]Oh how many countless ways there are to measure wrong. Or to not understand what you've measured. [↩]Yet [...]

]]> By: Mircea Popescu http://trilema.com/2014/an-hero-is-he/#comment-115306 Mircea Popescu Fri, 11 Sep 2015 07:01:43 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=54031#comment-115306 Cheers. Cheers.

]]> By: Gabriel http://trilema.com/2014/an-hero-is-he/#comment-115298 Gabriel Fri, 11 Sep 2015 00:48:37 +0000 http://trilema.com/?p=54031#comment-115298 I am forever grateful for this article - it made me realize that i too had that very bad habit of not looking up words as soon as i read/heard them. Since then, i have acquired the (very healthy) habit of looking up every single word i read and inquiring about every word that i don't fully understand. It had (and still has) a great positive impact upon me, along with the many other great articles of this great blog. Thank you I am forever grateful for this article - it made me realize that i too had that very bad habit of not looking up words as soon as i read/heard them.

Since then, i have acquired the (very healthy) habit of looking up every single word i read and inquiring about every word that i don't fully understand.

It had (and still has) a great positive impact upon me, along with the many other great articles of this great blog. Thank you

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