Notes from the Diesel
Sep. 15th, 2005 12:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tahnanAt one point in my revisions, I wrote that DPs (basically, noun phrases, like "John" or "the man in the corner" or the like) can refer to individuals in pretty much any worthwhile semantic theory. Of course, that's wrong anyway, because there are DPs that can't refer to individuals; but in any case, I'd rather forgotten that in Montague, pretty much the origin of modern semantic theory, DPs didn't refer to individuals.
If you didn't follow, I'll summarize: some days it just doesn't pay to open Microsoft Word in the first place.
To the guy who was sitting at the next table:
I'm sorry I snapped at you. I've hit a singularly difficult point in the dissertation-writing process, and the tension was building. Also, I know I speak fairly loudly, even when in the Diesel, though I try to keep my volume to moderate levels.
I ought to have said something sooner. Nevertheless, I think I would have been just fine without hearing your opinions on tattoos and other body modification, especially as it relates to your having been circumsized; on The Aristocrats; on Chinese phonology; and, after a variety of other subjects, on the euphemism "hooking up", complete with your quite audible pronunciation of the gerund form of the four-letter verb you would have preferred your frat boy friend to have said.
I should not have waited until the last straw, especially after discovering that your voice carries well enough for my options to be either (a) hearing you or (b) turning the volume on my headphones to a somewhat painful maximum.
I promise not to snap next time if you promise to help me avoid the need by speaking at more conversational tones.
I don't know if the Diesel has a policy as to what is or isn't appropriate for the bulletin board between the bathrooms. I can't help suspecting that personal ads aren't appropriate. I'm pretty darned sure that this one isn't. Sorry I can't reproduce the bad handwriting (the a's look like 9's, for instance), but I can at least capture the spelling:
"Ready 4 Me!"
with discreet discretion:
I'm A 34 yr old Hebrew Man
searching for my eve or lillith
or Both.. for coffee,
music, art, movies, walks,
casual sex
possible Romance..
Are u 19-35 Alternative/Goth
Tatooed and pierced
are u down to earth..
are u real, spritual,
Hate Bar scene, sexual
creative .. IF U ARE
ANY OF These
"lets Hook up!!"
Call Mike
Sorry, Mike, even though I'm some of these things--I'm 19-35, I happen to be real, I hate the bar scene--I think I'm not the girl you're looking for. And I really hope the girl you're looking for has the sense not to be looking for you.
If you didn't follow, I'll summarize: some days it just doesn't pay to open Microsoft Word in the first place.
To the guy who was sitting at the next table:
I'm sorry I snapped at you. I've hit a singularly difficult point in the dissertation-writing process, and the tension was building. Also, I know I speak fairly loudly, even when in the Diesel, though I try to keep my volume to moderate levels.
I ought to have said something sooner. Nevertheless, I think I would have been just fine without hearing your opinions on tattoos and other body modification, especially as it relates to your having been circumsized; on The Aristocrats; on Chinese phonology; and, after a variety of other subjects, on the euphemism "hooking up", complete with your quite audible pronunciation of the gerund form of the four-letter verb you would have preferred your frat boy friend to have said.
I should not have waited until the last straw, especially after discovering that your voice carries well enough for my options to be either (a) hearing you or (b) turning the volume on my headphones to a somewhat painful maximum.
I promise not to snap next time if you promise to help me avoid the need by speaking at more conversational tones.
I don't know if the Diesel has a policy as to what is or isn't appropriate for the bulletin board between the bathrooms. I can't help suspecting that personal ads aren't appropriate. I'm pretty darned sure that this one isn't. Sorry I can't reproduce the bad handwriting (the a's look like 9's, for instance), but I can at least capture the spelling:
with discreet discretion:
I'm A 34 yr old Hebrew Man
searching for my eve or lillith
or Both.. for coffee,
music, art, movies, walks,
casual sex
possible Romance..
Are u 19-35 Alternative/Goth
Tatooed and pierced
are u down to earth..
are u real, spritual,
Hate Bar scene, sexual
creative .. IF U ARE
ANY OF These
"lets Hook up!!"
Call Mike
Sorry, Mike, even though I'm some of these things--I'm 19-35, I happen to be real, I hate the bar scene--I think I'm not the girl you're looking for. And I really hope the girl you're looking for has the sense not to be looking for you.