Yes, somehow I have managed to revert to a ball of sniffles and my head feels about 3x heavier that it usually does. I only hope that: a) it doesn't last long, b) it isn't contagious enough to come around and bite me again!
This whole idea about blogging is quite interesting. Think about the number of living people around the world. Now think about the individuality of everyone and that it is possible for everyone to their own opinion. It seems almost right to be able to store at least a fragment of those ideas/opinions away for safe keeping. Right in the sense that ancient scripts have become valuable material for those who are intrigued by what message they may hold, if any at all
What makes things difficult with this idea of storing opinions, is that it is only too often that misinterpretations of these writings can be damaging to ones persona and even result in being sacked. This is no old news, sorry for digging it up. But thinking about what I write will definitely limit the content that I provide. How sad. Although, not being the sharpest tool in the shed, the limits that I will be riding on probably aren't that far from the threshold of my knowledge, if you want to put it like that.
No entiendo? What is a threshold of knowledge? Well, and I will use a doctor as an example since the new season of House is starting next Wednesday, picture the Doc explaining why I may be unwell, which I can understand but there comes a point where my knowledge of the human body ceases, and therefore I can no longer understand which femur is involved in stopping my tarsus from expanding, or whatever he will then rant about. Basically, the threshold of knowledge is the point at which you cease to understand, and this threshold will obviously differ for everyone and what they specialize in, ie. Sport, Naturopathy, Yoga, V8 Engines with twin-cams etc. The threshold is dynamic and will change throughout someones life depending on what activities they choose to fill their life with.
In the case of Stephanie Rice, she is definitely a victim, although it could have been avoided if other less colourful words were chosen to describe her ecstatic emotions. Not knowing her personally, I can't say that "faggot" is a frequently used term in her vocabulary. I can't say I know anything about Rugby Union either.
The lack of ability to transpose feelings and emotions through text is definitely a downside to blogging, tweeting, txting and so on. But in a way, it is keeping a check on the English language, reinstating what the Chinese have all learnt and embedded into their own language. And I'm talking about the different pitches they use on the same sound to give a different meaning. For those speaking English, if you take the word 'gay', and ask you 'In what way is this word most commonly used?', most of you would say that it refers to a man/women's sexual preference whereby they are attracted to those of the same sex; homosexual, but isn't there another meaning? It seems that the other meaning has somewhat been forgotten to the extent where the lyrics of a famous folk Australian song, have had to be changed because they are to obscene and inappropriate, just for having the word 'gay' in it! Personally, I try and avoid using that word for that very reason. And as a matter of a fact, I don't know anyone who uses it to express happiness and joy. Maybe I need to get out more...
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