tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post8116575999509813330..comments2024-03-28T11:28:31.364-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: `Symmetry and Balance in Sentences'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-65589141065815445152013-11-12T18:12:03.945-06:002013-11-12T18:12:03.945-06:00I think "Kurpwise" has possibilities, fo...I think "Kurpwise" has possibilities, following the example of Theodore Bernstein who once proposed "rabbiwise." But I draw the line at "Kurplich."<br />Bucehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16452321114185736762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-91574926910085819402013-11-12T14:25:59.040-06:002013-11-12T14:25:59.040-06:00Well, I just took a look (on Amazon) at the latest...Well, I just took a look (on Amazon) at the latest edition of Roget’s. The categories have been completely re-arranged. The first entry is Birth; the last entries have to do with astronomy and space travel. Is it now a great work of 20th century or 21st century philosophy? Somehow, I think not – but then again I am an old curmudgeon.<br /><br />And as for an adjective for Our Beloved Blogger, Kurpesque is more dignified than Kurpy, but I would opt for Kurpian -- it has a nice American can-do feeling about it. Denkof Zwemmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01118582264573609926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-64620604309904992972013-11-12T12:44:17.556-06:002013-11-12T12:44:17.556-06:00So how would our blogger’s name be transformed int...So how would our blogger’s name be transformed into an adjective? Kurpy?D. G. Myershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659136455045567825noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-46599485851600260402013-11-12T08:49:35.543-06:002013-11-12T08:49:35.543-06:00Along the same lines – readable lexicons: Read the... Along the same lines – readable lexicons: Read the old Roget’s Thesaurus (arranged not alphabetically, but arbitrarily, by subject matter) from beginning to end and you will find a detailed portrait of 19th century philosophy, from metaphysics through the physical world, human behavior and morality to religion. <br /> It begins with Existence and Nonexistence (1 & 2), Substantiality and Unsubstantiality (sic)(3 & 4) and moves gradually through the whole of human experience, finally finishing with Religious Rites, Ecclesiastical Attire and Religious Institutions. <br /> Starting at metaphysics and ending with religion may seem to us a circular route, but I suspect that Roget regarded it as a one-way, upward journey.<br /> Not only is the sequence of the entries indicative of Victorian thought, the very fact that Roget had so much confidence in his vision of the universe gives us a sense of how different that world was from our own relativistic one. <br />Denkof Zwemmenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01118582264573609926noreply@blogger.com