I have never encountered working definitions of "literal" or "inerrant" that were not sufficiently removed from my own working definitions of "open to interpretation" and "metaphorical" that gradations in the levels of literalism/inerrancy were of any great significance.
No, no, no, sir. No more chick pit for you. Come on.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
Jessica - Aug 04, 2006 9:54:26 am PDT #657 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Emily - Aug 04, 2006 10:01:06 am PDT #658 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Hey, Sean? I drove through Sarnia on this trip. Tell me I'm not the only one who remembers the Sarnia hand gesture.
Nutty - Aug 04, 2006 10:01:31 am PDT #659 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I was going to say: dictionary. "Literal" is not a word that should be open to interpretation, unless you are literally illiterate.
All polls take complex situations and squash them into boxes of varying fit. But by making the respondent choose among [foo] number of choices, the poll-maker is recording the decision the respondent made, not just the choice she ended up going with.
Polter-Cow - Aug 04, 2006 10:05:42 am PDT #660 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
But by making the respondent choose among [foo] number of choices
Heh. You study computer programming too?
Nutty - Aug 04, 2006 10:07:31 am PDT #661 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
No; I picked up that expression from here. Betsy, specifically, from whom I also picked up "wossname."
Sean K - Aug 04, 2006 10:07:56 am PDT #662 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Tell me I'm not the only one who remembers the Sarnia hand gesture.
Oh no. You're not. I think of the gesture, and that conversation in general, from time to time. And, if the last visits I made back to Michigan are any indication, there's a few other people who remember the gesture too. I'm pretty sure Joe and I have talked about it from time to time as well.
Polter-Cow - Aug 04, 2006 10:09:13 am PDT #663 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Betsy, specifically, from whom I also picked up "wossname."
I picked that up from Terry Pratchett.
brenda m - Aug 04, 2006 10:09:29 am PDT #664 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Hey, Sean? I drove through Sarnia on this trip. Tell me I'm not the only one who remembers the Sarnia hand gesture.
There's a gesture for Sarnia? (My mom's hometown.)
Sean K - Aug 04, 2006 10:11:25 am PDT #665 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
It's a whole thing, brenda. You had to be there.
Okay, you didn't. I could easily recreate the conversation, and probably make it almost as funny as we thought it was at the time, but I can't reproduce the gesture over the Internets.
Emily - Aug 04, 2006 10:12:36 am PDT #666 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I was going to say: dictionary. "Literal" is not a word that should be open to interpretation, unless you are literally illiterate.
Well. The Bible's a big darn book. And as Cindy says, some of the stories are pretty much explicitly stories -- but some people could read those as being literally true, while others could read them as being literally stories... I do think it's more complicated than that.