how we know st. john of the gospel was a morphologist

[fox]

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:1; emphasis added.

of course.  morphemes bad; paradigms (= words) good.  of course.  and i'm still dancing about the possibility of the shape rules thing i mentioned earlier.  do any of the rest of you ever feel an almost overwhelming urge to walk on your hands or stand on your head?  (i do, but it's always defeated by my even more overwhelming urge not to break my neck.)

Comments

[juice817.livejournal.com]

you are too funny, you know.

btw, the Word was another name for Christ, ergo, the Word was God.

[mrshamill.livejournal.com]

From Heinlein's The Number of the Beast... (one of my favorite books and something seductively alluring):

If you read it correctly, it's all in the Bible. 'In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Could anyone ask for a plainer statement of the self-evident fact that nothing exists until someone imagines it and thereby gives it being, reality? The distinction lies only in the difference between 'being' and 'becoming' -- a distinction that cancels out when any figment-fact is examined from different ends of the entropy arrow...

Then again, this is the guy who defined "Eschatological Pantheistic Multple-Ego Solipsism" as "Scatological Panhedonism Multiple Solecisms."

[corvidae9.livejournal.com]

As strange as it may sound, I am often overwhelmed with the need to stand on my head, knowing full well that there is no way in hell that I could. I remember the way my yoga instructor just kind of gracefully pops up at random times and think, "I could do that. I want to do that right now."

I can't.

[orange852.livejournal.com]

You've really diven off the linguistical deep end, haven't you?

[ducks, flees]