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Apr. 5th, 2004 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cosmolinguistIs there any time the reflexive case is more appropriate than when talking to or about one's computer? "I didn't do it, it messed itself up!"
In a kinda-related note, here's something I've been thinking of off-and-on for a while but never got around to writing down: If I were a sociologist I would write my thesis on the ways people anthropomorphize their computers (which a lot of people seem to do, we talk to them, attribute moods to them, name them, treat them like pets or small gods or magic tokens whose nature we will never understand).
In a not-at-all-related note, I think I should get to write my Russian history paper on this thesis: Rasputin did not die. Why not? There are conspiracy theories about this sort of thing happening to JFK and Jim Morrison and other people who didn't verifiably evade death to the extent Rasputin did.
Well, it's better than Jenn's. She wants to write about how Elvis was an alien. I reminded her that it had to be about something, you know, Russian. So she said, "He could be a Russian alien!"
In a kinda-related note, here's something I've been thinking of off-and-on for a while but never got around to writing down: If I were a sociologist I would write my thesis on the ways people anthropomorphize their computers (which a lot of people seem to do, we talk to them, attribute moods to them, name them, treat them like pets or small gods or magic tokens whose nature we will never understand).
In a not-at-all-related note, I think I should get to write my Russian history paper on this thesis: Rasputin did not die. Why not? There are conspiracy theories about this sort of thing happening to JFK and Jim Morrison and other people who didn't verifiably evade death to the extent Rasputin did.
Well, it's better than Jenn's. She wants to write about how Elvis was an alien. I reminded her that it had to be about something, you know, Russian. So she said, "He could be a Russian alien!"
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Date: 2004-04-05 08:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-04-05 09:59 pm (UTC)Just before and just after communism there were leaders who nearly ran Russia. Rasputin and Putin.. coincidence?
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Date: 2004-04-05 10:06 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-04-05 10:20 pm (UTC)If you mean as the first post-commy leader, not really. Yeltsin took power moments BEFORE the fall of communism.
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Nope... I got nothin'. I was going to try a witty comeback, but how does one top something like that??
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Date: 2004-04-06 10:53 am (UTC)Ghost World and American Splendor were good comic films though...
I loathe X-Men and Spiderman comics though (I always preferred DC to Marvel) and so I don't really have the comics to compare those to.
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