| Redlemon |
10-05-2005 05:49 AM |
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Originally Posted by Slavakion
(Although I'll admit that the significance of Redlemon's post was lost on me)
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OK, kids, gather 'round. Does anyone remember Sniglets, from the HBO show Not Necessarily the News? "The Meaning of Liff" was a similar concept; Douglas Adams and John Lloyd co-wrote it. From the introduction:
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In Life*, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist.
On the other hand, the world is litterered with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places.
Our job, as wee see it, is to get these words down off the signposts and into the mouths of babes and sucklings and so on, where they can start earning their keep in everyday conversation and make a more positive contribution to society.
*And, indeed, in Liff.
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The definition of Liff is what I quoted above. Someone transcribed the whole thing here: <a href="http://folk.uio.no/alied/TMoL.html">The Meaning of Liff</a>.
Nonetheless, I have no idea about...
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Originally Posted by uncle phil
he's still got shit...all over him...
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