But Therefore The Grace Of God Go I.
I do have something to journal about this morning, but first, I should post my "I'm Sorry I'll Draw That Again" strip, MR CIM, for the week. I'm still working on the feel of the strip, but I kind of like it being in the genre of "whatever the hell strikes my fancy this week." Here 'tis:
----------------------------------------
And here's the link to my partner in crime's strip this week:
"Good Lord it's huge!"
As before, comments on technique and suggestions on style are absolutely welcomed.
Now, on to my journal:
----------------------------------------
How would you classify the sentence "Tell me about it!"?
On first glance, it's a mere affirmation, but look closer. Nobody who says it actually wants the affirmee to tell them about it; after all, they already know enough about it to affirm the other's assertion.
So it means the opposite of what it says. But somehow, it doesn't seem to fall into either the category of sarcasm (with the likes of "Oh. Yeah. Suuuuuure.") or the category of sardonic wit (with the likes of Tom Leeeeeeeehrer). It's not trying to mean the opposite of what it says; it just does by chance.
In fact, the effect of the statement (affirmation) and the cause of implied meaning (irony) seem to have nothing to do with one another. I recently made up a word for things like this:
Coinciquence.
A portmanteau blending coincidence and consequence, a coinciquence is a situation when the ends have absolutely nothing to do with the means, when the circumstances that happen afterwards are nothing but sheer happenstance.
First there is a cause. Then there is an effect. However, in a coinciquence, the cause didn't cause the effect. In fact, it doesn't look like the cause caused anything having to do with the present state of affairs at all.
If I've gone to bed at 3 in the morning for the fourth night in a row, and the next day I have a heart attack, that's coinciquence.
If I don't unplug my modem when I'm not using my computer, and then someone hacks into my system and steals all my personal information, that's a coinciquence.
If a black cat crosses my path as I walk under a ladder, breaking a mirror, and then my boss calls me out for incompetence and fires me, that's a coinciquence.
To wax political for a brief dull moment, the VP sees about 90% of the current situation in the Middle East as coinciquence, when lined up with the reasons we went to war.
So, it seems coinciquence is mostly useful when telling your mom that what happened wasn't really your fault. The above examples are all negative coinciquences, but you can just as easily turn them around and make them positive:
You are the daughter of a celebrity, and you win an academic award (there are smart celebrity daughters out there, shut up).
You pick your sports team's winning score on Powerball the night of the big win, and you win big in the lotto.
You are a Representative who begins publicly supporting gun control, and then the Senate approves a bill to make it harder to buy a gun.
It's all just a huge coinciquence.
Amazingly, I came up the concept of coinciquence yesterday, long before I thought about the statement "Tell me about it." Was my subconscious mind looking for examples of my newfound linguistic term? Or was it just...
COINCIQUENCE???
To Be Continued...
.
----------------------------------------
And here's the link to my partner in crime's strip this week:
"Good Lord it's huge!"
As before, comments on technique and suggestions on style are absolutely welcomed.
Now, on to my journal:
----------------------------------------
How would you classify the sentence "Tell me about it!"?
On first glance, it's a mere affirmation, but look closer. Nobody who says it actually wants the affirmee to tell them about it; after all, they already know enough about it to affirm the other's assertion.
So it means the opposite of what it says. But somehow, it doesn't seem to fall into either the category of sarcasm (with the likes of "Oh. Yeah. Suuuuuure.") or the category of sardonic wit (with the likes of Tom Leeeeeeeehrer). It's not trying to mean the opposite of what it says; it just does by chance.
In fact, the effect of the statement (affirmation) and the cause of implied meaning (irony) seem to have nothing to do with one another. I recently made up a word for things like this:
Coinciquence.
A portmanteau blending coincidence and consequence, a coinciquence is a situation when the ends have absolutely nothing to do with the means, when the circumstances that happen afterwards are nothing but sheer happenstance.
First there is a cause. Then there is an effect. However, in a coinciquence, the cause didn't cause the effect. In fact, it doesn't look like the cause caused anything having to do with the present state of affairs at all.
If I've gone to bed at 3 in the morning for the fourth night in a row, and the next day I have a heart attack, that's coinciquence.
If I don't unplug my modem when I'm not using my computer, and then someone hacks into my system and steals all my personal information, that's a coinciquence.
If a black cat crosses my path as I walk under a ladder, breaking a mirror, and then my boss calls me out for incompetence and fires me, that's a coinciquence.
To wax political for a brief dull moment, the VP sees about 90% of the current situation in the Middle East as coinciquence, when lined up with the reasons we went to war.
So, it seems coinciquence is mostly useful when telling your mom that what happened wasn't really your fault. The above examples are all negative coinciquences, but you can just as easily turn them around and make them positive:
You are the daughter of a celebrity, and you win an academic award (there are smart celebrity daughters out there, shut up).
You pick your sports team's winning score on Powerball the night of the big win, and you win big in the lotto.
You are a Representative who begins publicly supporting gun control, and then the Senate approves a bill to make it harder to buy a gun.
It's all just a huge coinciquence.
Amazingly, I came up the concept of coinciquence yesterday, long before I thought about the statement "Tell me about it." Was my subconscious mind looking for examples of my newfound linguistic term? Or was it just...
COINCIQUENCE???
To Be Continued...
.