Comments on: A disputed anniversary http://isoglossia.com/2005/07/30/first-date/ Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:02:30 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: gaoo http://isoglossia.com/2005/07/30/first-date/comment-page-1/#comment-186 gaoo Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:21:51 +0000 http://isoglossia.com/?p=215#comment-186 Wouldn't the word in fact be dateness, rather than datiness, as in a noun rather than adjective? Just sayin'. Not to compete with you two learned linguists. I kind of wish I could do something wherein either myself or the other party would feel either sweatiness or shakiness. As unpleasant as that actually sounds. Oh well. Never mind. I guess the end result of all that sweatiness and shakiness is sort of where I am now, comfy as an old sofa. Wouldn’t the word in fact be dateness, rather than datiness, as in a noun rather than adjective? Just sayin’. Not to compete with you two learned linguists. I kind of wish I could do something wherein either myself or the other party would feel either sweatiness or shakiness. As unpleasant as that actually sounds. Oh well. Never mind. I guess the end result of all that sweatiness and shakiness is sort of where I am now, comfy as an old sofa.

]]> By: sgazzetti http://isoglossia.com/2005/07/30/first-date/comment-page-1/#comment-177 sgazzetti Sat, 30 Jul 2005 19:46:38 +0000 http://isoglossia.com/?p=215#comment-177 Right. I observed the difference between shakiness vs. sweatiness, but figured they were two sides of the same coin. And bear in mind that <em>I</em> was the "opposite party" at the time we're speaking of. So, in my mind, our first date fell on 28 July. But bear in mind also <a>who's the boss</a>. Right. I observed the difference between shakiness vs. sweatiness, but figured they were two sides of the same coin. And bear in mind that I was the “opposite party” at the time we’re speaking of. So, in my mind, our first date fell on 28 July. But bear in mind also who’s the boss.

]]> By: Elsa http://isoglossia.com/2005/07/30/first-date/comment-page-1/#comment-174 Elsa Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:40:38 +0000 http://isoglossia.com/?p=215#comment-174 Happy anniversary! Today! Not two days ago! Evidently! By your own account! First off, using me as the arbiter of dating epistemology only reveals the poverty of your thesis. We've suffered a miscommunication: it is not the state of one's own hands, but of the opposite party's hands, or rather of <em>both parties' hands</em> that determines the datiness or non-datiness of the meeting. (Also, I cited shakiness at the point of arrival, not sweatiness at the time of asking, but let us not quibble over small variables.) If I were having lunch with, say, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/" rel="nofollow">Alan Rickman</a>, my hands would shake, and how. But until I see Alan Rickman's hands shaking, I don't believe it's a date. Happy anniversary! Today! Not two days ago! Evidently! By your own account!

First off, using me as the arbiter of dating epistemology only reveals the poverty of your thesis.

We’ve suffered a miscommunication: it is not the state of one’s own hands, but of the opposite party’s hands, or rather of both parties’ hands that determines the datiness or non-datiness of the meeting. (Also, I cited shakiness at the point of arrival, not sweatiness at the time of asking, but let us not quibble over small variables.) If I were having lunch with, say, Alan Rickman, my hands would shake, and how. But until I see Alan Rickman’s hands shaking, I don’t believe it’s a date.

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