I have recently finished reading a book about punctuation. Now you may be thinking that this is quite possibly the dullest subject imaginable, but Eats, Shoots & Leaves (book of the year 2004) is a good read being humerous, light, and informative.
When I was at school, all those years ago, I didn’t get any lessons in grammar or punctuation, not that I remember anyway. This book has highlighted how little I actually know about the subtleties of english grammar. I have, thankfully, been able to pick up most of the basics from copious amounts of reading, but this has still left me quite wise in the art of proper punctuation and grammar.
“Wise?” I hear you ask, well if you accept the idea that wisdom is knowing that you know nothing, then yes, I am very wise.
While considering this fact on the train a thought struck me; if being wise means knowing you know nothing, surely wise people are also pretty negative?
Perhaps there should be proactive wisdom where you might say: ‘I know I know nothing and I’m going to do something about’, a scholarly wisdom if you like.
There would also be, I suppose, lethargic wisdom, where your thoughts would stray more along these lines: ‘I know I know nothing and I’m going to watch TV’, where you can feel safe in the knowledge that you are unlikely to learn anything from television and if anything remotely educational comes on then you can quickly change the channel.
I like to thing that I am proactively wise, although I must admit this activity is restricted to subjects that grab my attention.
What kind of wisdom do you have?
Are you wise at all for that matter?
Notice how I’m trying to insight a lively debate of sorts.
Feel free to correct my grammar and punctuation, it’s the only way I’ll learn. 🙂
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proactively wise or lethargic wisdom eh? hhhmmmmm, is this along the lines of action transvestite? …..i would say i have a little of both really….i could argue that being here at university makes me proactively wise, as i am seeking a better education and want to improve my knowledge…..but then again, i may only be t university because i want to get a decent job eventually and i needed to get out of my one horse town!…..if i dont know a word, i will look it up in a dictionary etc…..once again, a good display of my wisdom….BUT at the end of the day, i would choose a good movie over essay writing and lectures any day….so where does that leave me? do i have both? or am i doomed to be not as clever as Rob for the rest of my life! 😉
Well I certainly know one thing, I’ll always be more intelligent than you…. 😛
…..hhhmm is that so?…we shall see about that ! (and to highlight your point, it took me ten mins to come up with that very pathetic retort!)
ok guys….seeing as your all men who write on here (with the exception of one or two) i need to ask you something. Now, i have just received an email on okcupid from this random man saying ‘send me your address….lay down….and all you have to do is wait’ …..now, is this idiot just a one off or do men really expect us girly’s to fall at your feet when you use chat up lines? do any of you use chat up lines? and if so, do they work?
I suspect, as with most thing, that it’s not what you say, its how you say it. If Mr. X there had said that with an infectious grin and cheeky wink then he may well have sparked off some kind of conversation. I would like to hope (for his sake) that he wasn’t being serious and forgot how emails fail to convey your tone of voice.
Personally I don’t use chat up lines but then I never talk to strangers either, so who am I say?
he said it with no wink, no cheeky grin….just that…and Rob, you may not have the chat up lines but you have ‘the wink’!!!
Well in that case he is quite obviously a fool, or American.
Not that I’m saying Americans are fools, just that from what I’ve seen (not much) the guys seem to be far from subtle in their approaches to women.
It wasn’t a coincidence that I mentioned winking in my last comment 😛
…thus proves who is more intelligent i guess….
…Me?
…or possibly even the sultan of Brunei?!