Sp*m comment o’the day:
I’m not lily-livered of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not match to an idea. This is the primary error of the pretended “scientific” mind. People who howler facts for ideas are undone thinkers; they are gossip. I’m not scared of facts, I appreciated facts but a congeries of facts is not corresponding to an idea. This is the key paralogism of the alleged “scientific” mind. People who mistake facts to ideas are unaccomplished thinkers; they are nosy parker bruit.
I’m not a language purist, and allow a lot of leeway for people uncomfortable with English. Heck, I don’t know any language but English; who am I to smirk? But reading the above made my fillings vibrate.
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P.S. How are you all? I’m slowly — slooooowly — reinserting myself into the online world. Hope to be caught up by the weekend!
Nance says
“a nosy parker bruit.”
Haunting.
John says
Yeah. Words that fit together so well, so euphoniously, you have to wonder why no one ever matched ’em up before.
John says
Actually, now that I’m looking at it again, it almost has the feel of a comment composed via reCaptcha.
The Querulous Squirrel says
This is where illegal drugs, particularly hallucinogens, come into the world of blogging, with special spam companies hidden in forests luring the unemployed innocent with promises of those elusive magical highs AND money. What? I can take a pill and write whatever I want without editing or having to read it over again myself? Ka-ching!
John says
Please don’t take this wrong, O Squirrel, but when you are on a roll you are amazing. Love the idea of sp*mmers as a literal cottage industry, fueled by pharmaceuticals.
Jayne says
I really wish this guy would get his facts straight. Although I do kind of admire what he’s done with the non sequitur–spam hall of fame!
Slooowly here, too. … …
John says
Yeah. Not just his facts, but his whole freaking CONGERIES of them.
I thought about doing a word-for-word translation of this into something resembling conventional (as opposed to pro forma) English, but naaaah! :)
s.o.m.e.one's brudder says
I’m thinking that it’s generated by a bevy (as opposed to congeries) of Global Warming and/or Darwinian naysayers….
John says
Ha!
Which, in the context of Squirrel’s comment above, would be especially sweet — to find this anti-scientific cult working away in the heart of a forest.
marta says
As an ESL instructor, I can only nod and ask where is the rest of the homework.
John says
This comment cracked me up.
The domain which posted the sp*m in question indicated that it came from Russia. Do you have Russian-born students? You haven’t been sending them here, have you?!?