Darwin - Half Right

[Hans Blaster]

Do you really think for one minute people blow a gasket when I ... ahem ... "misquote" those titles, that they're [um] sincerely [/um] upset that I'm disrespecting context?

Seriously?

My gaskets are intact. Your low-rent tactics are not appreciated.

 

[Hans Blaster]

Kinda like calling miracles "magic," isn't it?

Everyone knows that magic is real. (Stagecraft.) Don't confuse it with the suspension of the laws of nature, or however you define "miracle".

 

[Bungle_Bear]

Questions:1. Do you misname The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life when you call it, The Origin of Species?

No. Using its title can hardly be construed as misnaming.

2. Do you misname The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life when you call it, Origins?

No. Using a commonly accepted moniker is not misnaming. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is often shortened to Principia. But it's never referred to as Philosophiæ Naturalis.

3. Do you misname a foreign book when you call it by its English title?

Sometimes. Should it be Bereshit or Genesis? Das Kapital or Capital?

4. When you step down the authorship of the Bible from God to man; is it okay if I step down the authorship of a couple of books from man to Satan?

The Bible has many named authors. Claiming inspiration is not the same as claiming authorship.

 

[trophy33]

no one has observed a favorable mutation in a plant or animal.

Hands, eyes, brains, fins, wings...

You can observe these mutations in fossils.

 

[AV1611VET]

No. Using its title can hardly be construed as misnaming.

No. Using a commonly accepted moniker is not misnaming. Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is often shortened to Principia. But it's never referred to as Philosophiæ Naturalis.

What if someone does refer to it as such?

Should its readers have a cow over it?

And are you seriously telling me that shortening Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica to Philosophiæ Naturalis is misnaming the book?

 

[essentialsaltes]

If you can write dozens of posts with all of three or four seconds between each of them then you defnitely don't have anything worthwhile to read.

It's true these threads are not worthwhile to read.

 

[Ophiolite]

And are you seriously telling me that shortening Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica to Philosophiæ Naturalis is misnaming the book?

It is not an accepted way of abbreviating the title. It would therefore be ambiguous to the reader or listener. One might make such an abbreviation through ignorance, or through a cynical desire to be obtuse. In either case it would be inappropriate.

 

[AV1611VET]

In either case it would be inappropriate.

I don't believe that.

Newton clearly intended the work to be viewed in this way when in 1686 he changed its title to Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, in allusion to Descartes's most prominent work at the time, Principia Philosophiae.

SOURCE

 

[Ophiolite]

I don't believe that.

The list of what you don't believe, printed on A4 in 12 point Calibri would encircle the Earth three times and wipe out a small soft wood forest in the Eiffel mountains.

 

[Bradskii]

It's true these threads are not worthwhile to read.

What the..? What on earth is that? It's umpteen empty posts. How did that happen? Was that done...intentionally?

 

[essentialsaltes]

What the..? What on earth is that? It's umpteen empty posts.

Empty? How can you ignore the thrill of consecutive integers? Certainly the people who like the posts must derive some entertainment.

 

[AV1611VET]

It's true these threads are not worthwhile to read.

You gave him that one!?

Pffft.

Try this one: 698750

 

[AV1611VET]

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[sjastro]

Empty? How can you ignore the thrill of consecutive integers? Certainly the people who like the posts must derive some entertainment.

Maybe the objective was to break the Guinness Book of Records for the largest consecutive number of pointless incoherent posts.

 

[Bradskii]

You gave him that one!?

Pffft.

Try this one: 698750

Can you please explain why they exist?

 

[AV1611VET]

Can you please explain why they exist?

Shore.

Some time ago (prior to 2009, I think it was) you could use "perks" that people gave you to go to the CF store and buy neat things, such as: pets, avatars, clothing, moustaches, swords, crowns, backgrounds, font styles, font sizes, and a host of other things.

I forget what those perks came in the form of.

Rep points or something.

Anyway, one of the things in the CF store that was available that I wanted real bad was a pic of a King James Bible.

It was the most expensive item in the store, and you had to have 2,000,000 reps (or whatever they were) to get one.

I posted like mad (no ref to my avatar) and was able to get one.

On a side note, a girl that used to post here (EnemyPartyII) once purchased a basket of apples and gifted it to me (since I claim my single most important post ever is my Apple Challenge).

Anyway, she gifted me a basket of apples and told me to eat them, so I purchased a King James Bible and gifted It to her and told here I would eat the apples if she would read the Bible.

Things used to really hop around here.

 

[AV1611VET]

Maybe the objective was to break the Guinness Book of Records for the largest consecutive number of pointless incoherent posts.

Or maybe not.

 

[SelfSim]

Shore.

Some time ago (prior to 2009, I think it was) you could use "perks" that people gave you to go to the CF store and buy neat things, such as: pets, avatars, clothing, moustaches, swords, crowns, backgrounds, font styles, font sizes, and a host of other things.

I forget what those perks came in the form of.

Rep points or something.

Anyway, one of the things in the CF store that was available that I wanted real bad was a pic of a King James Bible.

It was the most expensive item in the store, and you had to have 2,000,000 reps (or whatever they were) to get one.

I posted like mad (no ref to my avatar) and was able to get one.

On a side note, a girl that used to post here (EnemyPartyII) once purchased a basket of apples and gifted it to me (since I claim my single most important post ever is my Apple Challenge).

Anyway, she gifted me a basket of apples and told me to eat them, so I purchased a King James Bible and gifted It to her and told here I would eat the apples if she would read the Bible.

Things used to really hop around here.

And so, with that act (of taking her apples) you condemned yourself to everlasting damnation and expulsion from the Garden of Eden?

 

[AV1611VET]

And so, with that act (of taking her apples) you condemned yourself to everlasting damnation and expulsion from the Garden of Eden?

Ouch! I ... I didn't think of that!