EvC Shorthand

This is a good observation Para.It is not some pathological defiency but a mental recognition that came on me one day in the Hunterdon County Library when I was a young teen.There is only one organism. You and me say. There is not ONE organic biology however. The easiest way to keep track of the differences between various versions of biology has been for me to associate the mentally retained verity with an author's name somatically.So, overtime I come to understand a particular biologist better the better I come to understand myself. This would not work for physics because the object of physics *may* always be outside the flesh.I am older now and over the years the names do function as shortcuts but ones I can be as confident as using as I do my most up to date thought.But when I use other people's names rather than mine that means that the reader COULD physiologically come to mentally take in the information embeded in my reading by also reading the names.It was the biology of "ERNST MAYR" that 'forced' me into this policy (one could simply keep the different "theories" or "views" in mind as one would do in another discipline )because his position was so distinct and different than any other biologist that I read that only his name worked to keep straight in my mind what was different though.Edited by Brad McFall, : chemistry got in the way

I just made up a new one,
No shit Sherlock.

That was my Dad's favorite. I like it.That's what came before "duh"

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"Peshat is what I say and derash is what you say." --Nehama Leibowitz

Shorthand interest shown in PNT, so bringing this thread back to the service.

Three Letter AcronymFor example: There are way too many TLA's now.