now I'm thinking about the language floor

[fflo]

sprig5 was talking about the "sheesh" news about a sorority at DePauw, and I was commenting. The language floor was one of the best places---along with the writers' union hangouts and, say, the back & basement of Bill Smith---at my school. (There was no writers' residence space from my sophomore year until the year after I left the place, as they tore down the mecca that was Richmond House, along with its best-graffiti-ever bathroom.)

I am getting work done, in case you're wondering. Wandery mind, that's all. But firing on pretty much all cylinders when on task. I was quite schnazzy on one galley a bit ago, if I do say so m'self.

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Sinking down to the Language Floor

[peteralway.livejournal.com]

Every time I scroll past this post, I think that the Language Floor is some sort of bottom level of language. Is it where foul curses just can't get any lower because you just can't shock anyone with mere words, becuse you have reached the language floor? Is it where your writing and speaking drop to the level of unintelligibility--once you reach an utter inability to communicate, you have reached the language floor? Or is it that common foundation of language that we are all programmed for, and without severe brain damage, any human being can understand things at the level of the language floor?

Then I see I've missed the point entirely.

Nevermind.

Re: Sinking down to the Language Floor

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I think maybe I should be flattered that you assumed some big theoretical thing. Or I could choose to be, over that, if I want.