[lit-ideas] Re: The Taste of Twater
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 13:57:51 EDT
In a message dated 7/8/2009 1:14:16 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
karltrogge@xxxxxxxx writes:
"No... the logic is that
'water' is a bigger set than 'ice' since it also exists as liquid and
gas." There is nothing 'inviting derision or mockery' there that I can
see.
But he had recently scolded Phil Enns, with
"Adriano Palma is right: 'ice' is, as a matter of fact, water.
----
So Stone is _not_ using 'water' only for 'liquid water' -- for then his
'matter of fact' would turn out to be not a truism, as he expects, but a
falsism.
Oddly, the urban dictionary defines 'twater' in a matter different from
Putnam's.
Browning read Vanitie of Vanities, and thought that 'old nuns twat(er)'
referred to some part of her attire. Wasn't that rude of him?
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The water is wide (O Waly Waly)
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