Posted by shar on May 28, 2000, at 23:54:50
In reply to Re: Does Depression make you Stupid???, posted by brian on May 28, 2000, at 21:47:28
Tina1: Trust your instincts.
I think you've hit the nail on the head, Brian.
And the wonderful thing is, anyone can do it because the ideas don't even have to relate to each other. They can be totally random! Just make sure the big-word ratio is going, or maybe the deathly-descriptive analogy is going, and you can make no sense at all.
The phrase "transplendently liberating" is excellent. It will be put in my little notebook along with other examples of content-free communication. S
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> Hey, maybe you're getting smarter or more perceptive. Maybe the old "what the hell are you talking about?" syndrome is kicking in, wherein the sufferer suddenly realizes that what she is reading -- for all its big words -- doesn't make a lick of sense.
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> By the way, the opposite of you're possible affliction is known as the "UmbertoEcoism," a sad disease that causes the sufferer to write using superfluous technical terms, esoteric bits of history and religion and philisophical gobbledy-gook. Just want you to know that my treatment is coming along, well. In fact, its transplendantly liberating in its onanistic munificence!
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