Just the other day someone proposed to the professor of pop, via the mechanism of email, using the sintax of twit. Now. To be fair, this proposal has now been downgraded via F2F conversation to a mere proposition. However, the prof is not unfamiliar with the English language & he knows perfectly well there is practically no difference (in terms of language games) between a proposition & a proposal. Clearly a proposal (or so-called proposition) communicated in such a fashion is rather like a hypothesis. It suggests that this dual notion, this shared idea, this future project of a collective nature, is being tested -- experimentally -- to see what results emerge, after further empirical evidence has been accumulated & further trials have (we certainly hope) re-confirmed the congruence of said hypothesis/proposal/proposition between the human imagination and the true nature of the actually-existing world.
You may say Y or N via whatever is the latest cell phone WiFi txtng vid microwave landline gps leash tech rip. Or you may wait for any of the following IRL locales, so that you may answer F2F, on bended knee, red rose barbing the old teeth, as if all thorned up in a Jane Austen novel:
a) Paris (dive bar, Left Bank)
b) Winchester (Cathedral)
c) Chelsea (Shed Bar)
d) Berkeley Zen Center
Otha suggestions welcome in 140 chars or less.
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Kngratz. Bernie
Well as you might guess, despite misgivings over the format (I hate abbreviated syntax) my suggestion would be to just answer, in person, "
140 character limit reached
From what i've seen some marriages are best left in the virtual realm.
It's posts like this that make me realize I've been wasting my tweets. I could have proposing to people?! I'm missing a trick here.
Your answer, I assume, was "hell yes." That leaves you, like, 131 characters for exclamation marks of excitement!
IRL. That's the way to go!
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