[FRIAM] Communication guides for the elderly

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You are right, Steve.  I was overcome .... also.  Perhaps even, overcome .......... . 

Nick Thompson
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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steve Smith
Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 11:31 AM
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Communication guides for the elderly

Reading this, I am overcome ...

On 1/23/22 4:03 AM, David Eric Smith wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Ashok took a drag and blew a peaceful stream of smoke, and said philosophically:
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> “I am overcome with a sense of ….”
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> 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.
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> Eric
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>> 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.
>> 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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