Seven Things
Posted on Mon, 2nd January 2006 at 02:04 under Life, HumourInspired by the lists of
7 things to do before I die
- deduce
- write
- help anyone
- change species
- change form
- change something
7 things I can’t do
- pride
- envy
- avarice
- sloth
- gluttony
- lust
- wrath
10 other things I can’t do
- worship any other god but I
- make images of what is in heaven
- speak falsely of god
- work seven days a week
- dishonour my parents
- kill
- sexual indiscretion
- steal
- lie
- covet
Bugger.
7 things that attact me to my spouse
- ooh
- yeah
- mmmmm
- ahhh
- left a bit
- oh yes
- lordy lordy lordy, my oh my
7 things I say most often (from my vocabulary of 7,000+ words)
- why
- how
- what
- who
- where
- when
- fuck
7 things I love (from many!)
- life
- the human form
- the variety of species
- the vastness of knowledge
- water and the world within it
- having a purpose
- sharing it
7 other lives I would like to live
- Euclid (to feel the world unfold before me)
- Moses (to see the great pyramid in its full glory)
- Mohammed’s lovers (to watch the story unfold)
- Jesus’ lovers (to watch the story unfold)
- Any believer (to feel righteousness)
- My ancestors (to understand the world I live in)
- My descendents (to understand my impact)
Victor Wood said: January 2nd, 2006 at 10:29
How does one count his vocabulary? Just start listing them? Start with going through a dictionary: A-Z?
Where would you get the time?
How do you confirm that a word is truly part of your vocabulary? Do you test yourself? What if your wife disagrees?
Do words count that you use incorrectly?
How would you know when you are finished?
Can you give us the 7000+ in a sentence?
ReplyLibertus said: January 2nd, 2006 at 16:07
Hey, look. I was going to be honest and say “70,000+ words” but I thought I would let Goethe’s record stand for a bit yet. Most of my vocabulary is technical, after all, so I’m not sure it is comparable.
Do “!==”, “.*” and “sqrt()” count as words?
ReplyLibertus said: January 2nd, 2006 at 16:16
May I illustrate? If Moses came down from Mt. Sinai today and said the following, I would understand. Does this qualify as being able to speak another language?
$commandments = array( “worship any other god but I”, “make images of what is in heaven”, “speak falsely of god”, “work seven days a week”, “dishonour thy parents”, “kill”, “commit sexual indiscretion”, “steal”, “lie”, “covet” );
foreach($commandments as $number => $command) {
Replyecho ($number+1) . “. Thou shalt not ” . $command;
}
Victor Wood said: January 4th, 2006 at 07:32
It does indeed count as language. I’ve always maintained that programming languages are not only valid languages, but even as importantly as mathematics and music, international languages as well, much more so than English of (heaven forbid!) French (still wondering if French is considered a dead language). Nevertheless, you never answered my questions.
ReplyLibertus said: January 4th, 2006 at 09:57
I’m still minded to describe myself as monolingual until I possess at least one other human language. I’m going for German over French as the former is more compatibility with my normal gutteral delivery.
ReplyAli said: January 11th, 2006 at 18:18
Try Spanish. It’s fit perfectly with the Scottish throat.
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