[FRIAM] Communication guides for the elderly

[Frank Wimberly]

You aren't the only silent, Nick.  1943 here.

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Frank C. Wimberly
140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
Santa Fe, NM 87505

505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM

On Sat, Jan 22, 2022, 1:07 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eric, You Souless Heathen,
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> I feel it is my duty as the group’s only Silent, to go all rationalistic
> on all you xers, and zers, and boomers, and whatevers.   Besides, Eric IS,
> demonstrably, trying to get my goat here.
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> So: FWIW, I use ellipses to indicate hesitation, sometimes for irony,
> roughly equivalent to “for lack of a better word”, “not to put to fine a
> point on it”, or, more simply, “um.”
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> What I did want to press on the group was a wonder I have always had since
> the sixties when “fuck” went middle class.  What questions does it raise in
> the mind of the young when a word for “love making” takes on all these
> aggressive and exploitative meanings.  Eric claimed  that only in the
> caverns of a 50’s Freudian mind could these usages imply anything at all.
> I just can’t believe that.  (Eric’s point perhaps proven.)   Certainly, a
> child, wondering why adults are so secretive and obsessed about sex, and
> listening to how words for are so blatantly used, might come to assume that
> that sex is an occasion for one person to do harm to another.  Now I grant
> you that children assume that adults get up to a  lot of stupid things that
> children just don’t need to attend to, and that that boundary provides a
> lot of protection for kids.  But still! Give how little we know about the
> origins of sexual and gender identity, would it make sense to pay some
> attention to the categories we adults so vigorously assemble with our
> words?
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> No?
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> Nick Thompson
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Eric Charles
> *Sent:* Saturday, January 22, 2022 9:02 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Communication guides for the elderly
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> Part 1 (Yes, the generation labels are out of order.)
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