Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise

Aqua Letifer · 8 Jul 2020, 02:20

@Rainman said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

Aqua, did you mean good - better - best?

Nahh, arbitrary. I knew I'd be called on it, though.

And Epanalepsis is a repetition of a beginning phrase at the end of a line or sentence. One of the most well-known examples is Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": "To each the boulders that have fallen to each."

taiwan_girl · 7 Aug 2020, 02:42

All right, here is my ranking:

Some notes:

It was tough, because some people I think are very close, but thought I would try. LOL
Others (for example 16-20, I dont have enough of a good feel to really tell)
What do you guys think?

Larry R 1
Improviso R 2
Copper R 3
Jolly R 4
Horace R 5
IvoryThumper CR 6
Brenda CR 7
George CR 8
Rainman CR 9
LuFIns Dad CR 10
Kincaid CR 11
Loki CR 12
89th CR 13
Mik CR 14
Mark CR 15
MarinerMike CR 16
Kluurs CR 17
Jeffery CR 18
ILM CR 19
Quantum CR 20
Renauda CL 21
Klaus CL 22
Aqua L CL 23
Jon CL 24
Xenon CL 25
Taiwan Girl CL 26
Bachophile CL 27
Rich CL 28
Dr. Phibes CL 29
CatsEye CL 30
Friday CL 31
Optimistic CL 32
Axtremus L 33
WTG L 34
Nobodys Sock L 35

Aqua Letifer · 8 Aug 2020, 20:35

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right eh jon? EH???

I once met up with the next most liberal person relative to me and the next most conservative. True story. We had beers.

Rainman · 7 Aug 2020, 02:26

@Aqua-Letifer said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

@Rainman said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

Aqua, did you mean good - better - best?

Nahh, arbitrary. I knew I'd be called on it, though.

And Epanalepsis is a repetition of a beginning phrase at the end of a line or sentence. One of the most well-known examples is Robert Frost's "Mending Wall": "To each the boulders that have fallen to each."

Thanks! Epanalepsis. Epanalepsis. Need to remember that. I can imagine the ~~shocked~~ stupid look on peoples' faces when I casually remark on their use of an epanalepsis.

I can imagine the mumbling, "he's getting closer and closer to the middle of the bell curve!" What a compliment that would be!
Epanalepsis. Type it 100 times.
Epanalepsis. . .

Aqua Letifer · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 02:26

@Rainman said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

Thanks! Epanalepsis. Epanalepsis. Need to remember that. I can imagine the shocked stupid look on peoples' faces when I casually remark on their use of an epanalepsis.
I can imagine the mumbling, "he's getting closer and closer to the middle of the bell curve!" What a compliment that would be!
Epanalepsis. Type it 100 times.
Epanalepsis. . .

If you wanna take the full plunge, get a copy of the Handlist of Rhetorical Terms. You'll be all set.

jon-nyc · 7 Aug 2020, 02:38

Again quibbling aside it isn’t bad, probably he most glaring misplacement is QI. He’s much more to the right I’d say.

Markj more to the left

taiwan_girl · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 02:38

@jon-nyc said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

Again quibbling aside it isn’t bad, probably he most glaring misplacement is QI. He’s much more to the right I’d say.

Markj more to the left

Good points. Just dont know Quantum enough (or have a good feel of him) to know. He is in my 16-20 group. LOL

Aqua Letifer · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 02:39

@jon-nyc said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

Again quibbling aside it isn’t bad, probably he most glaring misplacement is QI. He’s much more to the right I’d say.

Markj more to the left

Be fun (although impractical unless Klaus is up for more web scraping) to compare this to total words shared. QI's not the most prolific so I can see how he'd be hard to rank.

89th · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 02:42

@taiwan_girl said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

All right, here is my ranking:

Haha love it! Seems about right to me (at least FOR me).

Horace · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 02:47

I'm to the left of the right, and to the right of the center right. This is the true middle, which makes sense, since I am the most objective one.

jon-nyc · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 02:55

There you go impersonating important people again.

LuFins Dad · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 03:22

I think QI and I come in at pretty similar points. Of course, I also thought I would come in a little to the left of Mik.

Of course, it also depends on the issue, how serious that individual takes the issue, and how important the observer seems the issue and their own stance.

Catseye3 · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 03:26

@Rainman said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

Thanks! Epanalepsis. Epanalepsis. Need to remember that.

Epanalepsis overuse is widely disparaged by linguistic elites as a sign of insufferable snobbery amongst British introverts, Harvard graduates, hipsters, and other practitioners of epanalepsis overuse.

Horace · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 03:33

TG, you should rank how good looking we are next.

Horace · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 03:35

I only say that because when Rainman sees where he is on that list, it will motivate him to finally lose that weight.

Rainman · 8 Jul 2020, 03:56

Yeah. I could go on a tongue diet.
Make Gandhi look like a blimp.

Not gonna happen.

hrumph. Fat person calling another a fat person.

That's an epanalepsis BTW. Bet you didn't know that.

brenda · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 04:28

Ha! For the little political posting I do now, it would not be easy to place me in the list. There are also many topics we never discuss here that put me very much in the center. I'm more likely to be closer to Mik. I suspect George would be, too.

It doesn't matter really. It's difficult to create such a list from only posts here.

Horace · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 04:33

My opinions are extraordinarily complex, subtle, and nuanced. It is wrong to place them on a flat one dimensional spectrum.

Klaus · wrote on 7 Aug 2020, 12:53

@jon-nyc said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

@Klaus said in Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise:

Over here I'd be classified as far right in the current political climate.

AFD is far right. Not you.

Well, this is where the one-dimensional left-right spectrum is no longer suitable.

The AFD is currently being torn apart. There are roughly two fractions: Those who want a party that is characterized by strong nationalism and socialist policies, similar to National Rally (formerly known as National Front) in France. I have nothing in common whatsoever with these people. There's another fraction that basically wants something like what the CDU used to be 20 years ago, or maybe a bit like the Tories in the UK. They could be described as roughly conservative and economically (classical) liberal. I have some sympathy for those people, but I don't like that they have these other idiots in the same party.

But in any case, these days it is sufficient to be in favor of markets and capitalism or in favor of any form of immigration control to be deemed "far right" by many. In that sense I am far right, even though obviously I myself don't view it that way.

Doctor Phibes · 8 Jul 2020, 13:26

I feel like I'm out of step with pretty much all parties. The Republicans/British Conservatives are a
truly odious bunch, and the Democrats/Labour Party are by-and-large idiots or just pander to various fringe nutters. At the last British election I found myself hoping that both leaders would somehow fall into an open sewer together.

What to do?

The New Coffee Room

Doesn't Really Mean Anything, but fun thought exercise