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.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Jul 21, 2006 5:31:48 am PDT #7907 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Toddson - Jul 21, 2006 5:32:11 am PDT #7908 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
And in re the research about tones, I checked out the feral child site and one of the children - who grew up with dogs, I believe - can speak but does so flatly, with no expression (just as a matter of interest).
Jesse - Jul 21, 2006 5:33:01 am PDT #7909 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'd say that's not unobvious either.
Me too.
tommyrot - Jul 21, 2006 5:33:04 am PDT #7910 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is this what happens when kittens lose their mittens?
Yes. Apparantly the cat's behavior is intended to circumvent the "no pie" consequence of losing mittens.
§ ita § - Jul 21, 2006 5:34:21 am PDT #7911 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If people would stop talking about cats, maybe I could lose this "Cat came back" earworm. It's been days.
t /hec
tommyrot - Jul 21, 2006 5:36:50 am PDT #7912 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We need a cat thread.
We could also kill two birds with one stone and make a Snakes on a Plane thread at the same time.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 21, 2006 5:39:12 am PDT #7913 of 10002
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
We need a cat thread.
We could also kill two birds with one stone and make a Snakes on a Plane thread at the same time
There are so many animals in this post it makes my head spin. Also, I am imagining the birds being killed by the cats, who are be eaten by a boa constrictor!
bon bon - Jul 21, 2006 5:41:32 am PDT #7914 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
It seems unobvious to me.
In one experiment, people looked at video screens with animated dots and described whether they saw them going up or going down. Separately, they read the sentences "It is going up" or "It is going down" without any visuals.
In watching the dots go up, their pitch rose as they followed the action, and lowered when the dots went down. The same thing also happened when they read the sentences.
I wouldn't have guessed this, nor have I heard anyone theorize that we unintentionally dramatize descriptions like that.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 21, 2006 5:42:41 am PDT #7915 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
If people would stop talking about cats, maybe I could lose this "Cat came back" earworm. It's been days.
If we did, it would just come back the very next day...
runs away
sarameg - Jul 21, 2006 5:52:49 am PDT #7916 of 10002
If you let the dogs out, maybe they'll chase the cats away.