Saturday, October 3, 2009

On Quotation: Part Deux

Kaizo: oh fuck me, there it is again
Kaizo: infinite retardation in translation
Kaizo: so, this paper i'm procrastinating on
Kaizo: parmenides vs. democritus
Kaizo: democritus basically being the first real atomist
Kaizo: parmenides basically being fucking crazy
Kaizo: their big dispute is, parmenides says there can be no void
Kaizo: like, "what is, is, and what is not cannot be, because if what is not were to be what is, it would contradict itself"
Kaizo: he works out a bunch of rules as a result
Kaizo: comes to this big conclusion about the apparent plurality we see around us being a inexplicable lie
Kaizo: well, democritus is like, that's nice, except you're insane
Kaizo: there is a void, and all the rules you apply to being should be instead applied to atoms
Kaizo: atoms in the void
Kaizo: well, this translation, apparently the same as the one i was supposed to have read in into to ancient freshman year
Kaizo: totally fucks democritus' stuff up the ass
Kaizo: "he calls substance hing, and the void not hing"
Kaizo: it's THING
Kaizo: and NO THING
Kaizo: you fucking...stupid...argh
SZN: oh
Kaizo: hing?
Kaizo: seriously
SZN: hing is the future tense of hang, obviously
Kaizo: i will hing him for his shoddy academic works?
SZN: hing hang, hung
SZN: yep
Kaizo: what about hanged?
SZN: thats slang
Kaizo: actually it's the reverse
SZN: yeah
Kaizo: hanged is the proper terminology for the past tense of a person being "hung" for punishment purposes
SZN: but not when i just told you hing is future tense
Kaizo: heh
Kaizo: maybe he will be hinged
Kaizo: would you say, he will be well hing?
SZN: if i had just delivered a baby
Kaizo: hahaha
SZN: and done some sort of long term study
SZN: and had the data to back it up
SZN: sure
Kaizo: and wanted to give away that you're focusing way too much on baby peen?
SZN: just another thing for parents to be proud of
SZN: it definitely reflects well on them, ya know
SZN: the dad really
SZN: unless you have a thing for big clits
Kaizo: personally? i do, but this conversation is taking a really weird turn

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