(10-06-2019, 02:18 PM)hazard Wrote: For anyone who likes clear communication, contronyms are at best an impediment.
As was revealed in (and by) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, clear communication isn't always that good a thing:
Quote:"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."
I mean, dig it, if you really understood what other people mean by the things they say, if you grokked everyone completely, you'd want to do to them all — to us all — what the Martians did, for the same reason, to the fifth planet that's now an asteroid belt.
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