An interesting article David posts. Perhaps our resident Weiner can explain to me the usage of "if" at the beginning of paragraph 5, which seems kind of biscuity but not exactly, and which has always bugged me since I was a kid.
Yeah, I actually started to blog that article but things have been so crazy this week (we have a software release on Friday) that I couldn't arrange my thoughts into anything coherent.
I wonder if I don't think about charity that much because I already work with the poor. Once I've done my bit and lock the office door, it's all champagne and caviar and snorting coke at the club. Well no. But feels like it should be.
Yeah, and that's why I do think about it -- because my job is so clearly the reverse of giving anything back. One of the things I really like about the internet is the potential for impulse charity. I don't give nearly enough by my own standards, but I'm much more likely to give when something appealing catches my eye: this, Audrey's Send A Cow thing, whatever.
I mostly missed a busy comment day, it looks like.
Pretty much the whole point of my post was so one of y'all would pick it up and we might have an interesting discussion here. If no one can arrange thoughts about it coherently enough to start discussion, feel free to blockquote my first two paragraphs or so.
As for the "if": I think it's more perspicuous as: "If friendships are more easily made than kept, money can add another obstacle to maintaining them." And I think what this is is a pretty straightforward "If A then B" with a very strong suggestion that A is true, and thus so is B. That's just a quickie analysis; it's like the biscuit conditional in that B is really asserted in its own right, but unlike it in that there's really supposed to be a connection between A and B.
An interesting article David posts. Perhaps our resident Weiner can explain to me the usage of "if" at the beginning of paragraph 5, which seems kind of biscuity but not exactly, and which has always bugged me since I was a kid.
Posted by The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05- 9-06 2:21 PM
And, speaking of Weiner, he actually blogged that article earlier this week.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 05- 9-06 2:28 PM
Well, there you go. There been less of those social-mores-w-a-political-angle discussions lately.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 05- 9-06 2:37 PM
I miss Ogged.
Posted by David Weman | Link to this comment | 05- 9-06 2:39 PM
I know, those were my favorite posts to comment on, and I just don't seem to come up with them. Becks comes up with some, but not like ogged.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05- 9-06 2:40 PM
Yeah, I actually started to blog that article but things have been so crazy this week (we have a software release on Friday) that I couldn't arrange my thoughts into anything coherent.
Posted by Becks | Link to this comment | 05- 9-06 2:43 PM
I wonder if I don't think about charity that much because I already work with the poor. Once I've done my bit and lock the office door, it's all champagne and caviar and snorting coke at the club. Well no. But feels like it should be.
Posted by ac | Link to this comment | 05- 9-06 3:05 PM
Yeah, and that's why I do think about it -- because my job is so clearly the reverse of giving anything back. One of the things I really like about the internet is the potential for impulse charity. I don't give nearly enough by my own standards, but I'm much more likely to give when something appealing catches my eye: this, Audrey's Send A Cow thing, whatever.
Posted by LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05- 9-06 3:32 PM
I mostly missed a busy comment day, it looks like.
Pretty much the whole point of my post was so one of y'all would pick it up and we might have an interesting discussion here. If no one can arrange thoughts about it coherently enough to start discussion, feel free to blockquote my first two paragraphs or so.
As for the "if": I think it's more perspicuous as: "If friendships are more easily made than kept, money can add another obstacle to maintaining them." And I think what this is is a pretty straightforward "If A then B" with a very strong suggestion that A is true, and thus so is B. That's just a quickie analysis; it's like the biscuit conditional in that B is really asserted in its own right, but unlike it in that there's really supposed to be a connection between A and B.
Posted by Matt Weiner | Link to this comment | 05- 9-06 9:11 PM