(September 11, 2018 at 10:00 pm)Losty Wrote:(September 11, 2018 at 9:46 pm)KevinM1 Wrote:
The one good thing that has come from this is the word misleadingness. That’s a great fucking word.
Oops. I didn’t mean to make so many posts in a row. Sorry about that!
Kevin, it is "systematial misleadingness", which is a phrase coined by a British thinker named Gilbert Ryle circa 1932. He points out that we humans can be misled by the subject predicate structure of our speech/writing. I can say: The uicorn is green., wherein ''The unicorn" is a systematically misleading the-phrase, whereby a reader can be misled because a ''the'' stands in juxtaposition with unicorn, rendering The unicorn... analogous to The tree...It is fun stuff, and, I combined-up thus: ...systematically misleading double-speak...Double speak is a cool concept; look it up on the net and please let me know, I need to refresh on it and do not have time right now...Negatio