Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Excerpts from Wikipedia:
This distinction is important. For example, a man M can be sexually/romantically attracted to a feminine ideal; but, in practice, some men may exhibit some of the charecterestics that are a part of that feminine ideal, and consequently, in practice he (M) may be attracted to such men. According to wiki's definition this would make this man bisexual. It seems to me that this man is not an exception, but the common case(?)
I know I have not considered the second definition in detail; I have not even defined what I mean by a masculine/feminine sex ideal.
- Bisexuality is a sexual orientation which refers to the romantic and/or sexual attraction of individuals to other individuals of both their own and the opposite sex or gender.
- Bisexual people are not necessarily attracted equally to both sexes.
- In 1995, Harvard Shakespeare professor Marjorie Garber made the academic case for bisexuality with her 600-page Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life in which she argued that most people would be bisexual if not for "repression, religion, repugnance, denial...premature specialization.
- Sigmund Freud theorized that every person has the ability to become bisexual at some time in his or her life.
This distinction is important. For example, a man M can be sexually/romantically attracted to a feminine ideal; but, in practice, some men may exhibit some of the charecterestics that are a part of that feminine ideal, and consequently, in practice he (M) may be attracted to such men. According to wiki's definition this would make this man bisexual. It seems to me that this man is not an exception, but the common case(?)
I know I have not considered the second definition in detail; I have not even defined what I mean by a masculine/feminine sex ideal.
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"It seems to me that this man is not an exception, but the common case(?)"
Thambi, idhu nalladhukku illa, avlo thaan solluven!
by the by, does tamil have "comma";
if not, what is its equivalent?
-varun
-varun
Thambi, idhu nalladhukku illa, avlo thaan solluven!
by the by, does tamil have "comma";
if not, what is its equivalent?
-varun
-varun
# posted by 
: 9:06 PM
: 9:06 PM
Fellini, the italian director, considers all art to be autobiographical. I am not claiming my blogposts are a work of art; but neither are they entirely autobiographical, some are just thought experiments.
I have thought abt the comma in tamil language before. I am not sure, but I think there was no comma (or a full stop) in early tamil literature. Nowadays people use it even in literary texts. It is worth noting that comma and fullstop are essentially some symbols that serve as delimiters and the simple (but inefficient) technique of going to the next line will serve the purpose.
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Vijay
I have thought abt the comma in tamil language before. I am not sure, but I think there was no comma (or a full stop) in early tamil literature. Nowadays people use it even in literary texts. It is worth noting that comma and fullstop are essentially some symbols that serve as delimiters and the simple (but inefficient) technique of going to the next line will serve the purpose.
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Vijay
# posted by : 9:15 PM
: 9:15 PM
interesting.... in tamil people add 'umm' (உம்) to the words to emphasis collection.
இயற்றலும் ஈட்டலும் காத்தலும் காத்த
வகுத்தலும் வல்லது அரசு.
we first need to find when English started using comma. Was it after the invention of the press or even before that.
'and' is expressed in tamil as matRum (மற்றும்). anyway I have asked a tamil scholar about punctuations. lets see what he thinks about this.
இயற்றலும் ஈட்டலும் காத்தலும் காத்த
வகுத்தலும் வல்லது அரசு.
we first need to find when English started using comma. Was it after the invention of the press or even before that.
'and' is expressed in tamil as matRum (மற்றும்). anyway I have asked a tamil scholar about punctuations. lets see what he thinks about this.
we first need to find when English started using comma. Was it after the invention of the press or even before that.
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According to wiki article on comma, "The comma was one of the first punctuation marks. In the 3rd century BCE, Aristophanes of Byzantium invented a system of single dots (distinctiones) that separated verses..."
But the press also played its part in standardising it. "The mark used today is descended from a diagonal slash, or virgula suspensiva ( / ), used from the 13th to 17th centuries to represent a pause, notably by Aldus Manutius" (Italian printer)
I think it might be better to separate language from punctuations.
I think, the future of punctuations also will be interesting to follow. I will not be surprised if things like ":)" ":(" are added.
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Vijay
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According to wiki article on comma, "The comma was one of the first punctuation marks. In the 3rd century BCE, Aristophanes of Byzantium invented a system of single dots (distinctiones) that separated verses..."
But the press also played its part in standardising it. "The mark used today is descended from a diagonal slash, or virgula suspensiva ( / ), used from the 13th to 17th centuries to represent a pause, notably by Aldus Manutius" (Italian printer)
I think it might be better to separate language from punctuations.
I think, the future of punctuations also will be interesting to follow. I will not be surprised if things like ":)" ":(" are added.
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Vijay
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