Wordwizard

You are talking about "use", not colors.
Think "We could use up to eight colors, but I think four is enough. I think [that the use of] four colors is best."
This is my opinion, proximity be damned.

Phil White wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 27, 2019 4:29 pm

gdwdwrkr wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 27, 2019 10:07 am

The concept certainly has elements of "dog-whistle" to it.

Quite so. And Erik is absolutely right. There is no need to obfuscate responsibility with a term like this when "incitement" is what we are really looking at.

...or at least, what we really mean.

The concept certainly has elements of "dog-whistle" to it.

A+

Thank you, Erik.
I just wonder if the Latin goes further back toward something a cat might understand as she snoozes in a patch of sunshine on a cold day.

A friend whose brother has just been admitted to an alzheimers unit in a faraway state is finding solace and consolation in some of the good qualities of the unit. Seeing the words together makes me wonder about their origins. I'm wondering if there is any solar-energy in their comfort.

"...threw up the sash..."
Talk about framing...

I always called the instrument a vee-ola, and often say it when the apropos term would be "voilà".

Lapse must be the root of it.

Saul's rebirth was possibly conceived by Stephen even while Saul approved Stephen's being stoned to death.

It's not so bad.
Though I will never get it done within the 2-week inter-library-loan time-limit.
So I'll blame them.

The steel named for the place also passes through the fire, takes quite a beating, and emerges better for it.

I have been ignorant of James Joyce and Finnegans Wake but thanks to an article about computers analyzing literature according to the probabilities of one word following another, and that Finnegans Wake has been found to be the least-predictable piece in the "English language" (!?), I have taken-up ...

They urned it.

Dog-whistling, as I hear it, can be any kind of verbal trojan-horse, deliberately-delivered or not, in political speech, always an aspect of "framing". Examples I have noticed have been based on the brain's inability to process negatives. Do not think of elephants. Be calm and do not riot. One spoke...