Re: CHAT: Synesthesia and conlanging (was Re: The ConlangInstinct)

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Dec 1999, Sally Caves wrote:
>
> > Frankly, I have that problem sometimes when I'm listening to English
> > spoken at learned conferences, where the discourse is Derridean or
> > Lacanian
> > critical theory.  Word arrows flying through me, nothing sticking in my
> > brain.  <G>
> >
>
> Oh, I have that too. I absorb the written word quite readily, but if
> forced to listen to the average scholarly speaker, whether he speaks
> English or Dutchish, I alway have to hope he just reads from his notes -
> the notes that he handed out in the form of handouts... Worse, at the
> single occurrence where I addressed a group of scholars, I felt the
> words flying out of me, and nothing stuck in my brain either. And when
> the questions came, I had to keep referring to my notes ;-).
I think part of the problem is that Lacan and Derrida are, in fact, devoid
of meaning.  Absolute gibberish.  Complete balderdash.  That's why I've
started using Mikhail Bakunin as my theoretical background.  If any arrow
will stick in a brain, it's the one tipped "anarchy".  ;)