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you know how the same questions get asked every so often on IL - well i've been reading the posts of people who answer EVERY time - do you answer because you left something out, can answer it better or wot ?

groping for tha nugget = grate

― , Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Because I love seeing my name on a screen. Even if it's my laptop screen. ;-)

― helen fordsdale, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do this. It's cos I forgot I answered the first time. The worst thing is when I disagree (also the best thing! cause then I have to switch off autopilot and think)

― Tom, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

just so you all know I am still alive. I have not got the concentration to type a long post so I type things incrementally down the thread

― Menelaus Darcy, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

RAMPAGING EGO. And to see if I've become schizophrenic.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

schizophrenic

I wish people wouldn't use word like this.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I do this. It's cos I forgot I answered the first time.

That's what I do too, my memory is just terrible. In fact, over on ILM I gave the same answer twice on the same thread because I forgot I had posted to that thread before. Pitiful, truly pitiful.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish people wouldn't use word like this.

I wish people wouldn't use word like this.

― Pete, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wish people wouldn't use word like this.

Me, I'm in two minds about it.

― kill me now, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Re: schizophrenic - am I being (insert word that means over-confident about general level of enlightenment due to extrapolation from lofty heights of own insight - I'm sure there is one, but I can't put my finger on it) here, or has the word not already spiralled off into the two meanings - the psychiatric one and a cultural one? Ok, so the second derives from a misunderstanding of the first, but don't most people yawn when someone points out to them that schizophrenia *really* names a psychotic state characterised by delusions etc? So that 'schizophrenia' is schizophrenic in the second sense?

BUT the uninformed use of 'manic depressive' does bother me: ok, so you're sometimes a bit sad and sometimes a bit hyper - HAVE YOU EVER MET ANYONE WITH A BIPOLAR DISORDER??? I think because in this case the dumb usage is close enough to the psychiatric sense to create real problems.

I got my best ever compliment from a boy about mid-way up in a manic phase, though.

― Ellie, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think the problem with the cultural use of schitzophrenic is that it actually can lead to a confusion about the clinical use - which could therefore be dangerous. I don't like its use in the cultural context for that reason too - especially since most cultural readings of the word boils down to either contradictory or confusing behaviour. And contradictory and confusing are much better words which are easier to spell.

― Pete, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

don't most people yawn when someone points out to them that schizophrenia *really* names a psychotic state characterised by delusions etc

Yeah Ellie I totally see where you're coming from but schizoprenia is so badly understood by the general population and the use of it to mean 'in two minds' really does propagate that (sometimes very destructive) ignorance. But I accept that it's probably a losing battle.

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Perhaps it's just time for a new word. If they can start calling strokes 'brain attacks,' why not?

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

... reminded of appropriation of 'special' as insult in Welcome To The Dollhouse

― Nick, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, I'd rather call the Strokes boring. They aren't really a brain attack cause they don't seem too brainy. (I am kidding, stop throwing yer Velvet Underground bootlegs at me!)

― helen fordsdale, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*rim shot* And for Helen's next trick...

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my rim iz shot too Ned, but that's anutha story for anutha day

― , Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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