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[terrorgore]

Study the drawings below. Devise an economical set of binary semantic components that would allow us to distinguish each object from all the others. Give the componential analysis for each object, according to your system. There are several possible solutions.

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[kat_travels]

Is the object a mammal?
If no: owl!
If yes: keep going!

Is the object striped?
If yes: tiger!
If no: keep going!

Is the object an asshole?
If no: moo-cow!
If yes: human. You lose.

[terrorgore]

Hey you're totally on the right path! The idea is to analyse definitions from a structuralist perspective, that is, their definitions in relation to other words' definitions, not just their own. So it goes something like:

Human: +Mammal
Owl: -Mammal

Tiger: +Four legs
Human: -Four legs

& so on & so on. But it gets a bit bullshit when your textbook tells you to define "Woman" as "-Man"

[kat_travels]

Wheeee. In science they're called dichotomous keys, and I don't like them one little bit.

So, hey, can I come visit you and your home soy-bean-farm in July / August? Or can I steal you away for an weeks' adventure to Leipzig or some other crazy halfway place? 'Cause I reckon that would rock!

(I am looking at sublet-apartment listings in Berlin and my brain is falling out of my ears because HOLY SHIT BERLIN.)

[terrorgore]

MOTHERFUCK
YES

so the wheels are in motion? !!!!
nine is housesitting in leipzig again from august too i think, could be a triumvirate of rad cookin up

[danbok]

I honestly can't think of an answer that doesn't involve the human making all the animals ride on top of each other for profit of the human....that's life eh,

[terrorgore]

Or the tiger/cow/owl locking the guy in a tiny cage & performing medical experiments on him/bringing his kids along to poke sticks at him/feeding him his own shit for a year before turning him in to chops. Justice is grisly! #alternateuniverse

[danbok]

I think the owl would just look on with a know it all look, while the other animals fought things out to smash down the human...

How is Vienna? A girl from lived in Vienna for a few years, I was looking at a map the other day and thinking of you and all my other pals in Vienna.

Did you to a target 168 zine? I did one but it was a bit crap, you could call it more of a target 1.68 zine I think...

[terrorgore]

Last time we were in Bratislava this woman told us her ex was a zoologist, who actually said that owls are one of the un-smartest birds. I don't believe her.
This was right before we stumbled on a TOPIARY ZOO. The only good kind of zoo is a topiary zoo!

Vienna's okay, we're scramming as soon as my exams are over for the arctic circle! Post-tree line electricity-free times, thank fuck.

Yeah yeah! I did it in the last 24 hours but it came out awright, fanx mostly to the best country in Eurovision it was covering*

*Moldova, like you needed a hint! Which was yrs?