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| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
842.0. "Meta-notes (all replies in iambic pentameters, please)" by PASTIS::MONAHAN (humanity is a trojan horse) Wed Nov 28 1990 23:10
Recent notes in 1.* have suggested the idea that maybe we need a
meta-notes conference.
In this, all notes would refer either to themselves, another note in
the conference, or to the purpose or conduct of the conference itself.
Would it be appropriate to conduct such a discussion with this as a
base note, and in this conference? If so, should I have written this
note in Limerick form, or would a Sonnet be more suitable to the
serious matter under discussion? Should we mandate the style of notes
at all, or just leave it up to the writer? Furthermore, do notes full
of questions confuse the reader and fill him with uncertainty about
the meaning of life? Can we create a closed system of 42
self-referential notes?
We must take a strong stand on these issues, and this is the note
in which to do it!
| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 842.1 | | TKOV51::DIAMOND | This note is illegal tender. | Thu Nov 29 1990 04:12 | 1 |
| See note 656.4.
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| 842.2 | How about Haiku? (even spelt correctly) | HEART::MACHIN | | Thu Nov 29 1990 17:32 | 12 |
| Re: 842.1
This note is sick. Had me going for a good hour looking for
any hint of a rhyme or whiff of metre before I realised I'd been
had. Sold a lemon. Purveyed a pig in a poke.
I agree with .0, and take issue with .1. Some sort of strict form
is required in order to force sublimity from noters' raw wit.
Thass my 'pinion, anyroadup.
Richard.
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