things that make me feel smart

[likethebeer]

Using the words "extant" and "in situ" when talking about buildings or art works.

I still feel dumb when approaching the word, "epistomology," however.

Comments

"epistomology

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

oh yeah,.. the study of french dueling pistols,..o.0

Re: "epistomology

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

really?
I thought it was that little snip
they do when you're having a difficult delivery ...

having a difficult delivery .

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

nope thats UPSpistology,..o.o

Re: having a difficult delivery .

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

that's too brown. you've snipped in the wrong place.
try here

that's too brown.

[erisreg.livejournal.com]

heh,..six of one,..
the blues or the browns
either or can bring you down
the delivery would be right on time
but was in backorder somewhere down the line
o.o

Re: "epistomology

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Aaaaahhhh! [and, once again, the childless chick goes screaming into the night]

Re: "epistomology

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

yeah. I'm glad I had c-sections.
no pain/no pain is my motto

Re: "epistomology

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Again, I'm fairly useless in this area... but my sis got a lot of attitude b/c she knew ahead of time that she wanted drugs. She felt like people were telling her she wasn't a "real" woman otherwise.

Re: "epistomology

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

they still doing that crap?
yeah, it makes me even more of a woman if I go down to the river behind that big rock and poop my papoose out all alone, biting on a branch.
my languages are really bad, I think it's French--maybe I'm wrong, here, correct me, but that's a bunch of horseshit from the word go.

Re: "epistomology

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

[laughs]
That's the word I hear on the streets. When E was pregnant she heard a great story from a nurse: "Natural childbirth? You want to talk about natural childbirth? Let's talk about natural amputation. Take a swig of whiskey and bite down on a piece of wood." [apologies to my friend jaaladay, who did natural childbirth and she said the moment when the kids were coming out was worth it. Still, I don't think she'd look down on someone who goes for the drugs.]

Re: "epistomology

[waning-estrogen.livejournal.com]

I can only speak for myself, but I sure don't feel like I'm not a woman for it. 40 years of bleeding and I'm still here to tell about it. show me a man who can lay claim to that.

I still feel dumb when approaching the word, "epistomology," however.

[theangelique.livejournal.com]

Hey, I have a BA in philosophy, and I still have trouble with that one. The professor I had for epistemology told the philosophy chair that I was a hoodlum who was hell-bent on disrupting her class.

Re: oh, thank you!

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I must have written down the definition of that word 6 times, in at least 3 different books, and I still had to look it up all the time in school.

Re: oh, thank you!

[theangelique.livejournal.com]

Epistemology - How do we know that we really know what we know, ya know...

Re: oh, thank you!

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

I always get mixed up, because I think "epistles," so I think "letters," and figure it's the study of letter writing.

The other one is "ontology," and it should be related to Foucault's idea of discourse (I think), but that is the other word I ended up dreading in grad school. But, hey, I did pick up the words extant & in situ, so I can learn on occasion.

Re: oh, thank you!

[theangelique.livejournal.com]

:-) I am currently working as a medical transcriptionist and as such write a lot of Oncology reports. You have no idea how many times I have had to go back and change ontology to oncology. I can only hope that I have caught every instance.

What did you study that you spent so much time on the "lighter" side of philosophy? (you will have to forgive me, but I never liked the epistemology and metaphysics classes. I was forced to take them to get my degree.)

Re: oh, thank you!

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Ontology/oncology--I can see that would be a problem ;)

I studied art history (those who can't do art...). Frederick Jameson, as I recall, used the most words that I could only find the definitions for in the unabridged dictionary. My major prof was into cultural studies, and he introduced me to Foucault, Lacan, Levi-Strauss, Balachine, etc, but only introduced me enough to blow my eyeballs through the back of my head.