Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: A question of semantics

From:Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...>
Date:Friday, August 8, 2003, 1:58
Herman Miller wrote:
> Oddly, it does exist, but not with the meaning I assumed -- it's the > opposite of "affectedness" (meaning "affectation"). That doesn't seem > nearly as useful as what I was thinking it meant (a condition of being > unaffected by events).
Interesting. The meaning I meant was exactly what you thought, "The condition of being unaffected by events" -- "There's no such thing as 'cool'. Everyone's just a big dork or nerd, you just have to find people who are dorky the same way you are." - overheard ICQ: 18656696 AIM Screen-Name: NikTaylor42