16 December 2004
I am not here
But had to report this amusing anecdote.
I was talking to a philosophy lecturer last night, as you do, and she told me that one of her female students had recently asked her not to use any words that contained more than eight letters, because she didn't understand them, and sometimes she was 'forced' to go home and look them up in the dictionary.
When it was pointed out to this lackadaisical student that the word 'philosophy' itself contained more than 8 letters, and that perhaps she would be better off taking, I don't know, law or art, the student was dumbfounded (assuming she could experience such a state, what with it weighing in at 11 letters). 'But I chose to do this course! You're supposed to be nice to me!'
I was talking to a philosophy lecturer last night, as you do, and she told me that one of her female students had recently asked her not to use any words that contained more than eight letters, because she didn't understand them, and sometimes she was 'forced' to go home and look them up in the dictionary.
When it was pointed out to this lackadaisical student that the word 'philosophy' itself contained more than 8 letters, and that perhaps she would be better off taking, I don't know, law or art, the student was dumbfounded (assuming she could experience such a state, what with it weighing in at 11 letters). 'But I chose to do this course! You're supposed to be nice to me!'
