Someday, I will find a cure for being a person and having a finite attention span.
Because, seriously, what the heck is wrong with you people that you don't want to listen to a sixteen-hour lecture with one hour of content perseverated on for the full sixteen hours?
Good gosh, if you can stand a thing once, you should be able to stand it ALL THE TIME EVER; or else just say "you're stupid, you're ugly, and I hate you" and just leave; don't just give some interest and patience and then take it away after a limited amount of time; that's just cruel and yanking the chain.
put your fingers on the side-edge of your nose, where the tear duct is, and move them a little down until you find a vein-like thing. You should be able to feel your pulse with it. Is it hurt there or inflamed?
That might be your problem.
It's not, but thanks for the suggestion. The pain's easing, anyway; it's just a slight sting now.
Someday, I will find a cure for being a person and having a finite attention span.
Because, seriously, what the heck is wrong with you people that you don't want to listen to a sixteen-hour lecture with one hour of content perseverated on for the full sixteen hours?
Good gosh, if you can stand a thing once, you should be able to stand it ALL THE TIME EVER; or else just say "you're stupid, you're ugly, and I hate you" and just leave; don't just give some interest and patience and then take it away after a limited amount of time; that's just cruel and yanking the chain.
It has been demonstrated that neurogenesis can sometimes occur in the adult vertebrate brain, a finding that led to controversy in 1999.[29] However, more recent studies of the age of human neurons suggest that this process occurs only for a minority of cells, and the overwhelming majority of neurons comprising the neocortex were formed before birth and persist without replacement.[2]
It is often possible for peripheral axons to regrow if they are severed. Recent studies have also shown that the body contains a variety of stem cell types that have the capacity to differentiate into neurons. A report in Nature suggested that researchers had found a way to transform human skin cells into working nerve cells using a process called transdifferentiation in which "cells are forced to adopt new identities".[30]
As far as i can tell from reading Wikipedia, brain cells are capable of regrowth, but only in 'permissive environments'. The environment in the central nervous system, following an injury, is generally not permissive; glial scar formation prevents the growth of axons. Additionally, the older you get, the less capable your brain cells are of regrowth.
So while they can grow back, generally they don't.
@Tachyon: see, what i do is i notice that language and writing is being used in a way that is inconsistent and/or confusing, and propose solutions that would make them less inconsistent and confusing by making language and text clearer, visually and aurally, and distinct between different meanings/purposes, and i try not to be too awkward in the process, but some awkwardness is inevitable when you're coming up with something new that people don't yet use
too much of the world is "we've already been doing things a certain way for so long, let's not change it", but that's not a good thing
(just wanted to explain what i'm trying to do, not trying to get you to agree with me)
Traditional sentence/paragraph formatting is standard and makes little distinction between importance. All it does is indicate sets of complete thoughts (in the form of sentences), and if paragraphs are used, relates several (or sometimes too many) of them at a time. The visual result of this is a long line of text -- you have to scan it carefully to pick out the important bits.
but
what-if
: we indicated importance in text by spacing things apart ?
I guess it would be less efficient space-wise though.
Standardization presents several problems. Persuading people to adopt a standard is difficult. Agreeing upon which standard should be adopted is also difficult.
i regard excessive standardization as an impediment to free expression and creativity. Communication is a two-way process, comprising two distinct acts: the act of writing (inscribing, speaking, filming, sculpting, etc.) and the act of interpretation. Ambiguous writing impedes communication, but stubbornly interpreting things according to a standard the writer may not be following can be just as much an impediment.
my position is not 'we've been doing things this way for so long, so why change now?', it's that i think this insistence on standardizing language is restrictive and pedantic.
> Ambiguous writing impedes communication, but stubbornly interpreting things according to a standard the writer may not be following can be just as much an impediment.
but what about when the way one is used to interpreting things comes into conflict with the intent of the writer whose writing one is reading?
because that's my main motivation for standardization: when you (general "you", not you in particular) write something and it confuses me because i think it means something else, or vice versa, because we have different conventions for what formatting means what.
> Ambiguous writing impedes communication, but stubbornly interpreting things according to a standard the writer may not be following can be just as much an impediment.
but what about when the way one is used to interpreting things comes into conflict with the intent of the writer whose writing one is reading?
then you have to actually use your brain and think about things like the human being that you are.
> Ambiguous writing impedes communication, but stubbornly interpreting things according to a standard the writer may not be following can be just as much an impediment.
but what about when the way one is used to interpreting things comes into conflict with the intent of the writer whose writing one is reading?
then you have to actually use your brain and think about things like the human being that you are.
because clearly, processing the meaning of the writing is not something that human brains do, but only parsing the construction is
Well, Glenn, if we're trying to communicate, and that situation arises, i'd say that's a learning opportunity for the both of us.
Although to use your particular example of "anime!porky pig", i would question whether there's any risk of an attentive reader (who is familiar with the character and the convention of prefixing character names with an adjective and an exclamation point) being confused by the lack of bracketing.
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Because, seriously, what the heck is wrong with you people that you don't want to listen to a sixteen-hour lecture with one hour of content perseverated on for the full sixteen hours?
Good gosh, if you can stand a thing once, you should be able to stand it ALL THE TIME EVER; or else just say "you're stupid, you're ugly, and I hate you" and just leave; don't just give some interest and patience and then take it away after a limited amount of time; that's just cruel and yanking the chain.
At least, that's what recent findings suggest.
So what kills brain cells only temporarily, because from what I remember, Brain cells aren't a thing that grows back.
>.>
As far as i can tell from reading Wikipedia, brain cells are capable of regrowth, but only in 'permissive environments'. The environment in the central nervous system, following an injury, is generally not permissive; glial scar formation prevents the growth of axons. Additionally, the older you get, the less capable your brain cells are of regrowth.
So while they can grow back, generally they don't.
Got it!
YOU GIVE THOSE DOGS THEIR TREATS RIGHT NOW
anime!
i regard excessive standardization as an impediment to free expression and creativity. Communication is a two-way process, comprising two distinct acts: the act of writing (inscribing, speaking, filming, sculpting, etc.) and the act of interpretation. Ambiguous writing impedes communication, but stubbornly interpreting things according to a standard the writer may not be following can be just as much an impediment.
my position is not 'we've been doing things this way for so long, so why change now?', it's that i think this insistence on standardizing language is restrictive and pedantic.
Although to use your particular example of "anime!porky pig", i would question whether there's any risk of an attentive reader (who is familiar with the character and the convention of prefixing character names with an adjective and an exclamation point) being confused by the lack of bracketing.