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#notation

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I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliche responses. Nor does it tell the full story.


David Icke


#cliche #connotations #does #full #green

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.


Michael Scheuer


#bin #connotation #course #good #great

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.


Michael Pollan


#chocolate #chocolate-cake #connotations #food #french

Sensitive," I tried. Sam translated: "Squishy." "Creative." "Dangerously emo." "Thoughtful." "Feng shui." I laughed so hard I snorted. "How do you get feng shui out of 'thoughtful'?" "You know, because in feng shui, you arrange furniture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways." Sam shrugged. "To make you calm. Zenlike. Or something. I'm not one hundred percent sure how it all works, besides the thoughtful part.


Maggie Stiefvater


#humor #word-association #humor

As the mother teaches her children how to express themselves in their language, so one Gypsy musician teaches the other. They have never shown any need for notation.


Franz Liszt


#children #express #gypsy #her #how

Diva has a negative connotation.


Glenn Close


#diva #negative

To speak about notation as the only way that you can guarantee structure of course is already very suspect.


Evan Parker


#already #course #guarantee #notation #only

My being a teacher had a decisive influence on making language and systems as simple as possible so that in my teaching, I could concentrate on the essential issues of programming rather than on details of language and notation.


Niklaus Wirth


#concentrate #could #decisive #details #essential

The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea of a constructed language.


Edward Sapir


#constructed #course #criticism #idea #inferiority

Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for.


Harold Budd


#certain #directions #down #go #i






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