From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: August 14, 2009 11:34:03 AM PDT
To: Walter C. Okshevsky <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [lit-ideas] Re: Hitler/Stalin/nutters/beer
On Aug 14, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Walter C. Okshevsky wrote:
Perhaps a bit of conceptual analysis is in order here:
"Thickness" is not a taste, it's a texture. One can taste bananas,
dark
chocolate, peaches or pumpkin but not thickness (or width, or
diameter, etc..)
"Back notes of nuts" is not a well-formed expression. It is,
minimally,
ambiguous between, on the one hand, an after-taste of nuts - and here
philosophical propriety requires that we ask whether there is
anything common
to the taste of nuts, as we do in the case of "games" - and, on
the other hand,
a nosing note experienced prior to any tasting or swallowing.
Surely anyone making such elementary errors would have to be some
kind of nutter, and thus a true American in Donal's chum's view?
David Ritchie,
Milligan (Spike) Chair with Loose Socks
University of Glass Cow
Also, Norway
