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		<title>By: Carl Morris</title>
		<link>http://quixoticquisling.com/2009/05/english-words-which-look-like-their-meaning/comment-page-2/#comment-70638</link>
		<dc:creator>Carl Morris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi all, thanks for all the comments, it&#039;s been entertaining and I appreciate them all. This is among the most popular posts on the blog. But I feel now that my ability to host this conversation has run its course so I&#039;m turning off comments on this post. If someone wants to carry on the conversation on their own blog or online space feel free. Don&#039;t forget this post is covered by Creative Commons so as long as you credit it you can re-use it around the web to talk about words which look like their meaning - or anything you like (a link to the post is probably best - it should generate a pingback here).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi all, thanks for all the comments, it&#8217;s been entertaining and I appreciate them all. This is among the most popular posts on the blog. But I feel now that my ability to host this conversation has run its course so I&#8217;m turning off comments on this post. If someone wants to carry on the conversation on their own blog or online space feel free. Don&#8217;t forget this post is covered by Creative Commons so as long as you credit it you can re-use it around the web to talk about words which look like their meaning &#8211; or anything you like (a link to the post is probably best &#8211; it should generate a pingback here).</p>
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		<title>By: Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The horse, is a horse, of course, that also looks like a &quot;horse.&quot;
But what if it vs. the &quot;iron-horse&quot; when it&#039;s in Jenny&#039;s professor&#039;s locomotion?
Choo, choo, ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The horse, is a horse, of course, that also looks like a &#8220;horse.&#8221;<br />
But what if it vs. the &#8220;iron-horse&#8221; when it&#8217;s in Jenny&#8217;s professor&#8217;s locomotion?<br />
Choo, choo, &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Jenny</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jenny</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 02:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Our professor gave us this one:

Locomotive</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Our professor gave us this one:</p>
<p>Locomotive</p>
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		<title>By: Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</title>
		<link>http://quixoticquisling.com/2009/05/english-words-which-look-like-their-meaning/comment-page-2/#comment-68991</link>
		<dc:creator>Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[I&#039;m assume, Carl, that included in our vocabulary is the extended alphabet &amp; symbols
of our ASCHII character set. After all, we do have single letter words, such as &quot;a&quot; in &quot;a book,&quot; Or &quot;I&quot; in &quot;I am that I am&quot; (haecceity asserted of God].

The Male &amp; Female Symbols are these: http://timcourtois.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/male_female.jpg

But the numbers were for the ancient Greeks, Even and Odd (one was not a Number):


2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, ...

Mathematics seems to have discover the Adam and Eve of Arithmetic: 0, 1 (zero &amp; one);

Notice that they are also even &amp; odd, female and male - yes, Eve comes before Adam.

So why not take explicit notice of the Vagina  Zero: O (Capital letter o), and the Penis One: I (Capital letter i).

- oh mi God. I can&#039;t believe it.

Is sexism the result of the fact that zero is nothing, but God is One; but gOd is also one.

Wherever &quot;0&quot; or &quot;o&quot; occurs we have the true Goddess,
but in the case of 1 or I we merely have &quot;masculine&quot; non-plurality.

Notice that a child is born out of a wOman, and that Man appears castrated
- shouldn&#039;t he rather be Iman? Or iman. OK, so he&#039;s always masculine in the first person singular &quot;I&quot; I&#039;ll exlcaim it!
He even plays fiddle to Hymans..

The natural numbers now begin like so: 0, 1, 2, 3, ....

But 1 always wants to get inside of 0, or I wants to penetrate 0.

In the beginning Adam  just wanted to copulate with eve by multiplying her like so:

1 x 0 = 0

but as you can plainly see in the above, it just left her flat.

Was it Satan who taught him that juxtaposition was also insufficient:

01 = 10 because it&#039;s really 0 x 1 = 1 x 0 = 0 - the latter disguising the same result?

How long did it take him to learn that Eve required additional foreplay:

Or should I say that Eve required of Adam the foreplay of addition like so
to produce the result of pleasure, without knowing who the resulting one would really be:

0 + 1 = 1 + 0 = 1 (not zero! Erika).

But it was not until the 19th century when Peano conceived,

the Sneaky &amp; Snaky Successor Operator S applied to Adam  alone (being the 1st to master bating):

S(1)  =  2 (an even, feminine daughter, but no son or Eve).

Not long thereafter Eve too (not two) realized that could do it alone
- with the great fringe benefit of creating him like so:

S(0) = 1 (a odd, masculine son, or Adam).

The moral of this story, is its conclusion, that 0 precedes 1 in our enumeration, as well as our binary system:

 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ....  &amp; 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, ...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[I'm assume, Carl, that included in our vocabulary is the extended alphabet &amp; symbols<br />
of our ASCHII character set. After all, we do have single letter words, such as "a" in "a book," Or "I" in "I am that I am" (haecceity asserted of God].</p>
<p>The Male &amp; Female Symbols are these: <a href="http://timcourtois.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/male_female.jpg">http://timcourtois.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/male_female.jpg</a></p>
<p>But the numbers were for the ancient Greeks, Even and Odd (one was not a Number):</p>
<p>2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, &#8230;</p>
<p>Mathematics seems to have discover the Adam and Eve of Arithmetic: 0, 1 (zero &amp; one);</p>
<p>Notice that they are also even &amp; odd, female and male &#8211; yes, Eve comes before Adam.</p>
<p>So why not take explicit notice of the Vagina  Zero: O (Capital letter o), and the Penis One: I (Capital letter i).</p>
<p>- oh mi God. I can&#8217;t believe it.</p>
<p>Is sexism the result of the fact that zero is nothing, but God is One; but gOd is also one.</p>
<p>Wherever &#8220;0&#8243; or &#8220;o&#8221; occurs we have the true Goddess,<br />
but in the case of 1 or I we merely have &#8220;masculine&#8221; non-plurality.</p>
<p>Notice that a child is born out of a wOman, and that Man appears castrated<br />
- shouldn&#8217;t he rather be Iman? Or iman. OK, so he&#8217;s always masculine in the first person singular &#8220;I&#8221; I&#8217;ll exlcaim it!<br />
He even plays fiddle to Hymans..</p>
<p>The natural numbers now begin like so: 0, 1, 2, 3, &#8230;.</p>
<p>But 1 always wants to get inside of 0, or I wants to penetrate 0.</p>
<p>In the beginning Adam  just wanted to copulate with eve by multiplying her like so:</p>
<p>1 x 0 = 0</p>
<p>but as you can plainly see in the above, it just left her flat.</p>
<p>Was it Satan who taught him that juxtaposition was also insufficient:</p>
<p>01 = 10 because it&#8217;s really 0 x 1 = 1 x 0 = 0 &#8211; the latter disguising the same result?</p>
<p>How long did it take him to learn that Eve required additional foreplay:</p>
<p>Or should I say that Eve required of Adam the foreplay of addition like so<br />
to produce the result of pleasure, without knowing who the resulting one would really be:</p>
<p>0 + 1 = 1 + 0 = 1 (not zero! Erika).</p>
<p>But it was not until the 19th century when Peano conceived,</p>
<p>the Sneaky &amp; Snaky Successor Operator S applied to Adam  alone (being the 1st to master bating):</p>
<p>S(1)  =  2 (an even, feminine daughter, but no son or Eve).</p>
<p>Not long thereafter Eve too (not two) realized that could do it alone<br />
- with the great fringe benefit of creating him like so:</p>
<p>S(0) = 1 (a odd, masculine son, or Adam).</p>
<p>The moral of this story, is its conclusion, that 0 precedes 1 in our enumeration, as well as our binary system:</p>
<p> 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, &#8230;.  &amp; 0, 1, 10, 11, 100, 101, 110, 111, &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Carl,

Every word which possess iconicity
is its own Mnemonic Device
- helps us remember the meaning
because it looks like its own meaning.

What you&#039;ve uncovered for all webers
(my neologism for uses the WWW),
or googlers (I dropped the C/capital)
is that every word
which possesses the property of iconicity
is its own Mnemonic Device.

So for example,
it would be easy to remember
that a Dromedary is one-hump Camel,
while a Bromedary is a two-hump Camel
(for the moment even I forgot which is which.

Carl - I&#039;m currently writing mathematics
and I try to express
&quot;mathematical structures,&quot; &quot;abstract algebras,&quot; &quot;universal algebra&quot;
by having the Symbols and Concepts
resemble their meaning.
There&#039;s no better word
for that concept or notion
than ICONICITY;
And its you, Carl, who occupies Web space
with the prominence of that notion informally
on the internet!

You&#039;ve heard of &quot;The Book&quot;
(any alleged book attributed to God
as containing God&#039;s words).

Think of the Web as
The Book of the Human Spices (homo s...).

You, Carl, have opened the chapter on iconicity
which goes beyond Wikipedia
because it permits
neologisms, poetry, and one&#039;s own
creative remarks and observations.

So thank you, Carl!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Carl,</p>
<p>Every word which possess iconicity<br />
is its own Mnemonic Device<br />
- helps us remember the meaning<br />
because it looks like its own meaning.</p>
<p>What you&#8217;ve uncovered for all webers<br />
(my neologism for uses the WWW),<br />
or googlers (I dropped the C/capital)<br />
is that every word<br />
which possesses the property of iconicity<br />
is its own Mnemonic Device.</p>
<p>So for example,<br />
it would be easy to remember<br />
that a Dromedary is one-hump Camel,<br />
while a Bromedary is a two-hump Camel<br />
(for the moment even I forgot which is which.</p>
<p>Carl &#8211; I&#8217;m currently writing mathematics<br />
and I try to express<br />
&#8220;mathematical structures,&#8221; &#8220;abstract algebras,&#8221; &#8220;universal algebra&#8221;<br />
by having the Symbols and Concepts<br />
resemble their meaning.<br />
There&#8217;s no better word<br />
for that concept or notion<br />
than ICONICITY;<br />
And its you, Carl, who occupies Web space<br />
with the prominence of that notion informally<br />
on the internet!</p>
<p>You&#8217;ve heard of &#8220;The Book&#8221;<br />
(any alleged book attributed to God<br />
as containing God&#8217;s words).</p>
<p>Think of the Web as<br />
The Book of the Human Spices (homo s&#8230;).</p>
<p>You, Carl, have opened the chapter on iconicity<br />
which goes beyond Wikipedia<br />
because it permits<br />
neologisms, poetry, and one&#8217;s own<br />
creative remarks and observations.</p>
<p>So thank you, Carl!</p>
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		<title>By: Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Maya,

Do you find
&quot;Callipygous&quot;
(1) descriptively in possession of its own nature, as well as
(2) self-descriptive, or you-self descriptive; or is
&quot;Calligyian.&quot;

And is it a neologism, and/or, a vulgarity,
to say to a woman that she is extremely
bootylicious?

And in writing to one&#039;s girlfriend, or wife,
would it be even less, or more suitable
to write to her lovingly,
but sexually as well,
that one finds her
no less than J Lo,
or Kim Kardashian,
bOOtylicious?

But if that offends
consider if a 

Bactrian Camell

is iconictically
distinguished from a

Dromedary Camel

in virtue of the &quot;D&quot; or &quot;B&quot;
on one another&#039;s back, backs, Back, or Backs.
Too back we don&#039;t have &quot;dack&quot; or &quot;Dack
for that other sort
of camel&#039;s back.
I&#039;d prefer to have had
Adam name each species simply
Camels and Bamels
for the sake of iconicity.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Maya,</p>
<p>Do you find<br />
&#8220;Callipygous&#8221;<br />
(1) descriptively in possession of its own nature, as well as<br />
(2) self-descriptive, or you-self descriptive; or is<br />
&#8220;Calligyian.&#8221;</p>
<p>And is it a neologism, and/or, a vulgarity,<br />
to say to a woman that she is extremely<br />
bootylicious?</p>
<p>And in writing to one&#8217;s girlfriend, or wife,<br />
would it be even less, or more suitable<br />
to write to her lovingly,<br />
but sexually as well,<br />
that one finds her<br />
no less than J Lo,<br />
or Kim Kardashian,<br />
bOOtylicious?</p>
<p>But if that offends<br />
consider if a </p>
<p>Bactrian Camell</p>
<p>is iconictically<br />
distinguished from a</p>
<p>Dromedary Camel</p>
<p>in virtue of the &#8220;D&#8221; or &#8220;B&#8221;<br />
on one another&#8217;s back, backs, Back, or Backs.<br />
Too back we don&#8217;t have &#8220;dack&#8221; or &#8220;Dack<br />
for that other sort<br />
of camel&#8217;s back.<br />
I&#8217;d prefer to have had<br />
Adam name each species simply<br />
Camels and Bamels<br />
for the sake of iconicity.</p>
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		<title>By: Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</title>
		<link>http://quixoticquisling.com/2009/05/english-words-which-look-like-their-meaning/comment-page-2/#comment-68800</link>
		<dc:creator>Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Never mind. The name is &quot;tally marks&quot; - or sould I say ta&#124;&#124;y marks? Wikipedia has it identified: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_marks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Never mind. The name is &#8220;tally marks&#8221; &#8211; or sould I say ta||y marks? Wikipedia has it identified:<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_marks">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally_marks</a></p>
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		<title>By: Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ludvikus, Manhattan, NY</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Maya &amp; Carl,
     Great Marshall McLuhan!
&quot;The Media is the Message&quot;! Isn&#039;t that about our subject?

There&#039;s lot&#039;s of alleged progress with Computers and mathematics.

The Binary system, with 0 &amp; 1 as the only digits is a simplification improved to our numeration system of the digits 0,1,...,9.

But for our purpose here the old, primitive tally system of the caveman would be most suitable, don&#039;t you agree?

0 =           [nothing! not the blank ]

1 = &#124;

2 = &#124;&#124; [it&#039;s not eleven!]

3 = &#124;&#124;&#124;

4 = &#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;

5 = &#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;&#124;

... [I&#039;ll stop here since the cavemen could only count up to five, after that, he said &quot;mmmmmmmmmmmmmany&quot;]

And that wonderful ellipsis ... is it supposed to symbolize far away soundtracks going into infinity?

PS: Does anyone one know the name of the tally symbol?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Maya &amp; Carl,<br />
     Great Marshall McLuhan!<br />
&#8220;The Media is the Message&#8221;! Isn&#8217;t that about our subject?</p>
<p>There&#8217;s lot&#8217;s of alleged progress with Computers and mathematics.</p>
<p>The Binary system, with 0 &amp; 1 as the only digits is a simplification improved to our numeration system of the digits 0,1,&#8230;,9.</p>
<p>But for our purpose here the old, primitive tally system of the caveman would be most suitable, don&#8217;t you agree?</p>
<p>0 =           [nothing! not the blank ]</p>
<p>1 = |</p>
<p>2 = || [it's not eleven!]</p>
<p>3 = |||</p>
<p>4 = ||||</p>
<p>5 = |||||</p>
<p>&#8230; [I'll stop here since the cavemen could only count up to five, after that, he said "mmmmmmmmmmmmmany"]</p>
<p>And that wonderful ellipsis &#8230; is it supposed to symbolize far away soundtracks going into infinity?</p>
<p>PS: Does anyone one know the name of the tally symbol?</p>
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		<title>By: Carl Morris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Carl Morris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Maya, you can link to pictures on Flickr if that helps? Thanks for all the comments.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maya, you can link to pictures on Flickr if that helps? Thanks for all the comments.</p>
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		<title>By: Maya</title>
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		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CARL-
Can we attach pictures? it would solve everything!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CARL-<br />
Can we attach pictures? it would solve everything!</p>
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