Toys! Shiny!

[featherynscale]

An e-prime assistant. This nifty little script checks text for forms of "to be", in order that a writer might eliminate them.

Also, Mentat Wiki, yet more resources for using your brain in a meaningful and coherent fashion. I want to be a Mentat when I grow up. Also, I feel a new icon coming on. Watch this space.

Comments

Re: It's not so much a linguistic argument as a psychological one.

[kcgreenman.livejournal.com]

Wow!

I Like this. I had thought this before but didn't know it had a name. Cool...

Re: It's not so much a linguistic argument as a psychological one.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

The relationship between brain function and language engages me likewhoa. I can go on for hours about this stuff if people let me.

I bet you would enjoy the Four Levels of Reality material. It covers a multi-layered process of evaluating events and the ability to assign certain "facts" about the event to the appropriate source (i.e. internally generated or externally generated facts), so that a person can make a clear decision about "what really happened". We present this stuff at Gaia on a pretty regular basis.

Going on for hours...

[kcgreenman.livejournal.com]

Cool...

This philosophical stuff starts my engine too...Lets talk sometime. We can have someone hose us down if we go too long....:)

Ok, 4 level stuff sounds interesting too. Whens the next class?

Re: Going on for hours...

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Hose us down?

Usually they just have to tell me I'm pontificating, and on rare occasions, take my glass away. (I find it difficult to pontificate without a glass, regardless of what the glass actually contains.)

As to next 4 levels class, I don't know. I don't think we have one scheduled this year that exclusively focuses on that, but it often creeps in to other classes' material.