[FRIAM] Communication guides for the elderly

[David Eric Smith]

Back in college one of my three closest friends was a guy (later very successful as an entrepreneur) who stood out in our affections as both very smart and very scattered and dotty.

One evening, after some hours of basketball, three of us were sitting outside into the late hours asa college kids do.  Those two were smoking and drinking cokes.

Ashok took a drag and blew a peaceful stream of smoke, and said philosophically:

“I am overcome with a sense of ….”

I don’t believe he ever returned to finish that sentence, or even noticed that for an instant it had seemed interesting to him to start it.

Eric



> On Jan 22, 2022, at 4:19 PM, Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
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> On 1/22/22 2:10 PM, David Eric Smith wrote:
>>> trigram analysis of my writing might well be dominated by that signature…
>> Nah, it’s the forward slash, marking logical or among literals.
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> good catch, I experience it as a lack of commitment to a specific term/concept/example... wanting the reader to superpose all and draw their own consonance/dissonance therefrom.  Is this perhaps what you mean by "among literals"?
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> Following NST, my ellipses tend to be more intended to indicate a pause or to indicate that what may look like a sharp tangent is intended to be more of a gentle segue (in my mind).   Or maybe too lazy to make the segue smooth with actual words?
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