Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 03-03-19 09:15 <=-

We talk about crisp, crunchy, hard, tough,
and so on, with greater or lesser differences
among them (I listed those in order of
desirability to me).

True... and they might well differ in how they are perceived by what is being eaten... Some instances of tough might be seen as chewy depending
on the food in question, for instance... :)

Exactly - it depends on the eater's preloaded
ideas about the food in question. What's tender as
a steak would be unbearably chewy as a custard.

[chuckle] Yes, indeed... :)

Yeah. Ramona, California. As of last time I

On proofreading this I read Roman, Catholic.

Sigh. Similar enough.......

Yeah, maybe. Actually, a lot of evangelicals
and a bunch of Mormons around there. Not a Jew
in sight, and the Cathies are all Hispanics.

So the most of them wouldn't be too pleased with your misread....

I doubt they'd care, except some of the Mormons,
whom I don't come into much contact with, as my
forays into town are basically to the wineries
and two of the beer bars.

Yes, that should cut down immensely on contact, as they are generally teetotallers.... :) Or at least supposed to be....

Speaking of some effort, it'll take me some
effort to figure this out at all.

Which, the actual seeing, or the being able to do anything about the issues thereof....?

Both, to some degree.

Hopefully you will get it figured out well... :)
... Q: What did the Gingerbread Man put on his bed? A: A cookie sheet.

Insulated, I hope.

Hopefully, especially in winter.... ;)

I asked about the difference between rap and hip-hop.
I didn't get a straight answer, and half of the
terminology they used I had no idea what it meant.

They're speaking a sublanguage which might as well be foreign... and
they probably thought they /had/ given you a straight answer..... ;)

Well, maybe, but a couple of the participants
in the conversation other than those with a
current academic interest in the subject admitted
to being flummoxed by the discussion as well.

A higher form of jargon.... understandable only to those in the know,
but they are so used to it it seems simple to them....

... "Abandon the search for Truth; settle for a good fantasy."

What's to say that we don't already?

You do have a point there.... :)

ttyl neb

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