Cultural Studies 100 : Sarah Klein's noon tutorial

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Logorrhoea, Etaoin Shrdlu, and Jabberwocky

Well I'm glad to say that for once I read something from the Cust 100 book and actually didn't have to re-read it to understand it! The logorrhoea article I even found to be interesting because I actually know people who try to talk this way, I'm sure many of you know others who do as well. So what I got from the article is that logorrhoea is a type of speech in which the speaker explains their thoughts by using over complicated words that try to make them seem smarter when really they just sound like they have no idea what their talking about! Like the article said, it's like a verbal diarrhea and is just as unpleasent to hear as it is to understand. Then I read the Etaoin Shrdlu article, which I understood but then couldn't figure out what its meaning is. I mean, I understand how it is connected to non-sense but I don't understand the point in the article. Jabberwocky is exactly what the title says it is. Even with the translation it made little sense but I guess that was the point of it! Anyway I hope I'm alone on this....

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