Are you a lert?

Ros · Senior Member

Are you a lert?

Roper · Senior Bucketkeeper

I finally figured it out.

So often men claim that women are clueless. (I understand this could be said of men as well but since I am a man and this is a thinly veiled but loving bit of cyber playfulness, I'm going to go with it.) I always felt this was unfair and sort of "woman-hater" thinking. Yet, I sometimes....often....well, too often at least....find myself going "What is she thinking????" or "Why isn't she thinking??"

*gasp* "Is she really clueless???

Then I came across this:

Main Entry: clue·less
Pronunciation: -l&s
Function: adjective

1: lacking understanding or knowledge

2 : totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring

See! Women aren't clueless in an airheaded, I-don't-have-to-be-smart way. They are just 'uninformed' and occasionally 'lack knowledge.'

Well...yeah..ok. It's not personal. And this discussion in no way, shape, or form, will ever apply to Sister Roper.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Has anyone looked up the meaning of lert?

It will be hard to know if I'm one or not if I don't know what a lert actually is.

See, I'm having enough trouble dealing with this pair o' noids here... Don't know, maybe a lert is the other creature on that food chain...

Of course, this could just be the time to pull out a new pair o' dimes from the coin purse, ya know...

Ros · Senior Member

See? Roper understands. Calling me 'clueless' would be irritating. Saying I lack knowledge is...well...true. And fixable.

I've also decided that Catherder uses far more of his brain than I do of mine.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Not only does Roper understand, he is in touch with his feminine side... I think Roper's Lass makes sure of that! Plus, he has the uncanny resemblance to Chuck Norris!

{quickly ducking back out of thread before Mrs. Cat Herder looks over his shoulder and smacks him one upside the head}

Of course, on the serious side, a lot of misunderstandings based on assumption could be avoided if people in general took more time to utilize language to it's fullest... learn to use words and phrases within the context of the proper definitions of words instead of just inferring the definition to be that which they think or are accustomed to assigning them.

arbilad · Head Chef

Cat Herder wrote:

Not only does Roper understand, he is in touch with his feminine side... I think Roper's Lass makes sure of that! Plus, he has the uncanny resemblance to Chuck Norris!

{quickly ducking back out of thread before Mrs. Cat Herder looks over his shoulder and smacks him one upside the head}

Of course, on the serious side, a lot of misunderstandings based on assumption could be avoided if people in general took more time to utilize language to it's fullest... learn to use words and phrases within the context of the proper definitions of words instead of just inferring the definition to be that which they think or are accustomed to assigning them.

True to a degree, Cat. But the writer also has an obligation to not make too many demands of the reader. For instance, if I were to say that I threw my waste paper in the cheese wheel near my desk, then carried the cheese wheel out to the outside cheese wheel, emptied it, then brought it back in, you can probably guess that I'm using "cheese wheel" as a synonym for trash can. But it makes it much harder for the reader to wade through what I'm writing, and detracts from my main point.

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Actually, I had no idea what you were referring to and saying until I read the whole thing through twice.

I scanned it initially and saw a couple key concepts trash can, throw away, paper, and cheese wheel, and so thought you were saying something about throwing some paper wrapping from a cheese wheel away (like the wrapping paper on a wheel of brie from Costco). Why? Well, that was something I was familiar with (having done that very action just Friday night).

So, I counter that what you just demonstrated was what I was saying... imprecise use of language and each person's proclivity to take the executive summary approach to communication causes more problems than it solves.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

I've decided this thread has turned boring. Could we crank up the interesting discussion threads a bit?

--Ray

bokbadok · Senior Bucketkeeper

Ray, you need a project. Go out and build something. Sitting at the computer wishing for interesting things to happen on Bountiful is only depressing.