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meara - Jul 21, 2006 5:26:28 am PDT #7898 of 10002

Because sometimes the "everybody knows that!" things turn out to be wrong? (edit: or, what Jesse said)

The two faced cat and the lipsticked fish are both super creepy. Eeek.

I have so far today done an hour long conference call, several emails, and a half-hour long call with someone else for work. I think I'm ready for bed. :)

Sophia Brooks - Jul 21, 2006 5:26:30 am PDT #7899 of 10002

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

A kitty felon:

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§ ita § - Jul 21, 2006 5:26:59 am PDT #7900 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

But I don't think tone is conventional wisdom. I do think it's obvious. Which is why I wonder if the paper's about something more subtle than that.

Isn't there a disorder, for instance, where the hearer can't interpret tone? I have a vague Oliver Sacks memory. That would seem to imply its existence right there.

I'd rather believe I don't get the article than believe that tone has just been discovered, in 2006, way after text-based communication has been shown to lack a certain something that aural interpretation affords.

sarameg - Jul 21, 2006 5:27:57 am PDT #7901 of 10002

I have been a moron with my sleep habits this week. Please shoot me.

Vortex - Jul 21, 2006 5:28:04 am PDT #7902 of 10002

"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Isn't there a disorder, for instance, where the hearer can't interpret tone?

autism? or somebody-somebody syndrome? (Tay-Sachs?) hmm

eta: not Tay Sachs, but possibly somebody else-somebody else syndrome

Amy - Jul 21, 2006 5:29:35 am PDT #7903 of 10002

Because books.

In winter, when gardening gloves are hard to find, Willy doesn't become a mitten kitten. His offseason prey is dirty socks from the laundry room.

Despite his criminal nature, neighbors get a kick out of Willy. Cassone said the cat likes to accompany the mailman up and down the block, all the way to each front door.

Poor Willy. Can he be rehabilitated?

Jesse - Jul 21, 2006 5:30:06 am PDT #7904 of 10002

Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But I don't think tone is conventional wisdom. I do think it's obvious. Which is why I wonder if the paper's about something more subtle than that.

Oh, it is about something more subtle than tone in general -- it's about unconscious tone. People could "hear" if the speaker was looking at something moving fast or slow while they talked.

Jars - Jul 21, 2006 5:30:28 am PDT #7905 of 10002

Isn't there a disorder, for instance, where the hearer can't interpret tone?

Don't a lot of autistics have difficulty interpreting tone and facial expression? Or is that something I made up in my head?

Toddson - Jul 21, 2006 5:30:56 am PDT #7906 of 10002

Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"

Is this what happens when kittens lose their mittens?

§ ita § - Jul 21, 2006 5:31:48 am PDT #7907 of 10002

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

it's about unconscious tone

I'd say that's not unobvious either. I'd be more surprised at an assertion that tone is conscious.

I guess there's something I'm completely failing to get.

Maybe it's tone.

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