Some Memory

Have you noticed the proliferation of “some”?  As in, “some months ago” or “some 500,000 people”?  I have.  Everywhere.  Newspapers.  Magazines.  The New Yorker—once a standard-bearer for grammatical precision.

I am of the view that memory is limited and, in part, physical.  Information I remember takes up space.  I have only so much space in my tiny mind.

What the Greeks Knew & When They Knew It

Any self-respecting Platonist would know that physical exercise relates to intelligence.  Is that something we need to study?

Myomancy.  Now that seems like something we ought to study.

On Nouns & Other Park-related Observations

Having returned from my perambulations, I advise my beloved readers as follows:

•Caveat is a noun.  It is not a verb.  Proceed accordingly.

Grrrr!

To Whom It May Concern

I hate e-mail correspondence that does not begin by using my name.

Nothing florid.  “Dear Mangrove.”  “Mangrove.”  “Dr. Mangrove.”  “MW.”  Any of those would do.

I know.  I am old.  Minor acts of outdated civility are dead.  But, I don’t see why.  They aren’t hard to effect.  And they work.

Thank you.

MW

Dept. of Anti-Logism

“Inflationize.”