> -----Original Message----- > From: David Silberstein [mailto:davids at kithrup.com] > Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 2:57 AM > To: Dragaera List > Subject: Below Hypothesis > > > On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > > >On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, David Silberstein wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 9 Nov 2003, Philip Hart wrote: > >> > >> >(what's below hypothesis?) > >> > >> Suggestion? > >> Notion? > >> Idea? > >> Pulled-from-out-of-arse wild speculation? > > > >I'm looking for some philosophy-of-science-blessed term, if possible > >with a Greek root.... > > "Idea" is Greek. How about "ideation"? More to the point, > "*pararectal* ideation"? OK, so "rectum" is latin, but "para" is > definitely Greek. > > [tangent] > > I have the notion that "pararectal" ought to be prefixed before > all examples of science and technology as portrayed in the movies and > television. So, for example, Lara Croft is pararectal archeologist. > > The more the science/tech deviates from reality, or from sane > speculation, the more prefixes we add to the term, to indicate that it > came from further up the descending colon. So while, say, Trek's > "warp drive" is merely pararectal, the way the universal translator > *immediately* recognizes languages is hyperpararectal technology, and > the bogon-particle-du-jour is superhyperpararectal particle physics. > > [/tangent] > Pararectal equates nicely with "wild ass guess." :) W