I love it when you speak space cornish.

[hirez]

Yet more people telling me that they read this thing but don't understand the half of it. As if it were my problem.

Life's hard when you're a guerilla ontologist. Which is, I don't know, putting a name to something that's just normal. In that I can and do say please and thank you and get invited to weddings and served lager in normal pubs where

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[cookwitch]

I find it better to say this;

"I have no idea what that means, but it sounds fabulous!"

Sometimes I do not understand the things people say, doesn't mean I don't like listening.

[hirez]

There is, I think, a whole pile of stuff in that one statement that needs unpacking. Somehow.

[sushidog]

It's like art, innit? Sometimes you don't need to understand it; you can look at it, and it'll look back at you, and prod your brain; you don't necessarily need to prod _its_ brain.

That's how I like to think of hirez, of course, innit.

:-)

[hirez]

You know, there's a reasonable amount of irony in so many splendid but derailing comments...

[hirez]

So I think there are several different pieces to this.

One of them is that when I hear/read the phrase 'I read it but don't understand you' (or words to that effect), the implicit statement that follows is 'so you should explain it for me.' Which, I don't know, sounds an awful lot like 'I am too special to 'highlight, right-click, Google', which is what I do all the damn time when reading things on that there internets

[sushidog]

I don't think "I don't understand this" _necessarily_ implies "so you should explain it for me"; at least, not always; the impression I get frhe comments here is that a lot of people enjoy your posts not simply despite the fact that they don't entirely understand them, but _because_ they don't entirely understand them, and so they get their heads stretched a bit.

Also, I think the "not understanding" bit is not always about not bothering to Google; you have a talent for making connections in a way which can seem rather obscure to anyone who isn't in your headspace, so even if each opf the steps is perfectly familar, the route between them isn't, necessarily.

This is not in any way a criticism of you; trying to keep up with your train of thought if fascinating and exhilirating, and sometimes difficult, when you do a Matrix-style side-step into a different dimension. But that's a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.

[hirez]

I should also note, as if it were not already abundantly thingy, that present company is utterly excepted. I mean, self-selecting group, innit.