450k for a three bed flat-madness ! Now these people face ruin.

fc123

wolfplayer wrote: »

Very true StevieJ.

Those Huxley/Orwell quotes..thanks.
I haven't read those authors for 30 years.

I am going to revisit those 2 this summer.

I always thought the animal experiment book (H G Wells) written over 100 yrs ago was like future gazing.

mewbie_2

fc123 wrote: »

I always thought the animal experiment book (H G Wells) written over 100 yrs ago was like future gazing.

People will think the same of my prose when they look back at these threads in a hundred years time.

fc123

mewbie wrote: »

People will think the same of my prose when they look back at these threads in a hundred years time.

Well, I shouldn't really use a fellow poster as an adjective (but I just can't help myself ) but if we are in 'The Dopestar Period' then, unless you printed them off and buried them in a waterproof tube, their won't be any leccy to power up the PC that they are stored on....so no readers.

I suggest cave writing. Lasts 1000's of years. Only snag is, piccies are better than words as languages evolve.

mewbie_2

fc123 wrote: »

Well, I shouldn't really use a fellow poster as an adjective (but I just can't help myself ) but if we are in 'The Dopestar Period' then, unless you printed them off and buried them in a waterproof tube, their won't be any leccy to power up the PC that they are stored on....so no readers.

I suggest cave writing. Lasts 1000's of years. Only snag is, piccies are better than words as languages evolve.

Interesting thought. Some doodlings on a cave last hundreds? of thousands of years. Now in our electronic Tower of Babel, our childish babblings twitter into instant oblivion, swamped by an ever increasing rush of inanities.

fc123

mewbie wrote: »

Interesting thought. Some doodlings on a cave last hundreds? of thousands of years. Now in our electronic Tower of Babel, our childish babblings twitter into instant oblivion, swamped by an ever increasing rush of inanities.

That was very literary Mewbie baby.;)
Seriously, I think our generations ramblings will be the least enduring in history.....due to the way they are recorded and stored.

mewbie_2

fc123 wrote: »

That was very literary Mewbie baby.;)
Seriously, I think our generations ramblings will be the least enduring in history.....due to the way they are recorded and stored.

The way Twitter is restricted to 140 characters says something about the future for the language of Shakespeare. Is no one capable of bearing to read more than 140 characters of anything? It's a sort of celebrity of words - instant, meaningless, pointless and as you say unlasting. If that's a word, probably isn't, but the internet fries your brain after a while.

Stephen Fry twitters - 140 characters for arguably one of our finest current minds. It's appalling really.

bluey890

fc123 wrote: »

That was very literary Mewbie baby.;)
Seriously, I think our generations ramblings will be the least enduring in history.....due to the way they are recorded and stored.

You are forgetting the dark ages...

Compared to then we have classics like.
That's one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind

fc123

mewbie wrote: »

The way Twitter is restricted to 140 characters says something about the future for the language of Shakespeare. Is no one capable of bearing to read more than 140 characters of anything? It's a sort of celebrity of words - instant, meaningless, pointless and as you say unlasting. If that's a word, probably isn't, but the internet fries your brain after a while.

Stephen Fry twitters - 140 characters for arguably one of our finest current minds. It's appalling really.

Or an extreme precis...which is seen as skill in itself.

You should see teen DD and mates communicate in MSN and txt language. It's like a whole new way of writing, a new language in itself.
Almost going back to the hieroglyphics alphabet.

BTW Hows your yoof language practise coming on?;)

nearlynew

Ths tme nxt yr avge hse prce wil b lwer thn thy r nw.




(ps I :heart2: rwd)

mewbie_2

fc123 wrote: »

BTW Hows your yoof language practise coming on?;)

Now that was funny. The reaction of the young one to my pidgin geddin down with dem kids. Every now and then MSE generates some genuine pleasure. Perhaps this net stuff ain't so bad after all.