tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734846.post110665002627700271..comments2023-10-02T06:06:38.784-05:00Comments on Fires Along the Tallgrass: A Word is a Word is a WordPhil Dillon, Prairie Apologisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00933117233625601141noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734846.post-1106676247994497002005-01-25T12:04:00.000-06:002005-01-25T12:04:00.000-06:00Phil, My reply would have been something along the...Phil, My reply would have been something along the lines of "For crying out loud, get your mind out of the gutter!" I'm sure you handled it with much more aplomb! <br /><br />cheers,<br />FeebleFeeble Kneeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01428674594953876260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734846.post-1106671372165980682005-01-25T10:42:00.000-06:002005-01-25T10:42:00.000-06:00Phil,
You are on target here. Word usage IS based ...Phil,<br />You are on target here. Word usage IS based on convention. While your critic's interpretation could be valid in another context, this person clearly did not include context. Methinks that other issues dictated the choice of an interpretive framework here. <br />Communication is a complex act that requires work on both sides. The conventional metaphoric meaning of "meat" has to do with "that which sustains life" in a physical spiritual or intellectual sense. The phallic symbol has its own broad set of metaphors in which "meat" is at the periphery. But we must never abandon metaphors. As one cartoonist, with an image of a lover gazing into his beloved's eyes, pointed out, "Your lips are like, well, lips... Your eyes are like, um eyes."<br />Jerome Mahaffey<br />Ast. Prof of Communication<br />Indiana University EastAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7734846.post-1106664259316898832005-01-25T08:44:00.000-06:002005-01-25T08:44:00.000-06:00"What is food to one is others bitter poison." ..."What is food to one is others bitter poison." Lucretius<br /><br />I grew up in a home where making intelligent and responsible choices was considered the highest virtue. My brothers and I considered hearing our parents say, "Good boy!," to be the greatest compliment. Because we recognized that there would always a difference of opinion for decisions, we knew early-on that "one man's meat was another man's poison," and vice-versa.<br /><br />Your ignorant critic clearly proves the point. Your teaching-response affirms the need in all of us to recognize the universe-sized stumbling block our ignorance truly is. Making intelligent and responsible choice requires learning effort and patient indulgence in each others' missing shoe-boxed size knowledge.<br /><br />"Good boy Dillon!"<br /><br />a Choicemaker<br />Psalm 25:12Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com