1. The subcommittee on language discussed the altering of as many words as possible to better reflect and, if possible, perfectly reflect the word's meaning. Some candidates for improvement are as follows:A. Old form: redundant. Adjective, meaning "characterized by verbosity or unnecessary repetition in expressing ideas." New form: reredundundantdant
B. Old form: Palindrome. Noun, meaning "a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc., reading the same backward as forward, as Madam, I'm Adam or Poor Dan is in a droop." New form: Palindromemordnilap
C. Old form: dissonance. Noun, meaning "inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony." New form: XnGlanThscrmQN
Possible problems: the committee found that in drawing the meaning of a word closer to its form - in an attempt to obliterate the arbitrariness of sound-labels - an exponential descent into absurd bodily function words became all too tempting, therefore the word for whistle became the act of whistling, the word for burping became the act of burping, and the word for flatulence became the act of making a strawberry with one's lips and tongue. It then followed that the committee's discussion led to the question of whether or not the definition of the use of words was predicated on the a priori assumption that one had to use one's mouth to form them. If not, this would lead to a massive definition revision effort on the part of common terms like "Potty Mouth."
2. The subcommittee on the establishment of a "Ministry of Art and Advertising" discussed the possibility of using the strategy of Caption Revisionism in order to alter history, in those cases where history is in need of altering, or where it's funny. An example of this might be as follows:
"Socrates seen foolishly accepting a bet by fellow Fraternity members that he can, indeed, consume an entire gallon of Hemlock in under one hour without vomiting."
3. Finally, the subcommittee on possible future forms of government lackadaisically discussed the importance of both taxes and voting, pitting the two against each other in a battle of virtues. While it was noted that one theoretically has the right to vote and concordantly not to vote, one also theoretically does not have the right NOT to pay taxes. It followed in the discussion whether having the right to pay taxes without the right not to pay taxes suitably fulfilled the definition of "right," and the question was raised if that definition needed altered as well. Before lunch we were talking about whether or not it was taxes or votes that made a good society, and subsequently whether it was the establishment of good business or good government that should occupy our time during the next meeting.End of Report.
As an aside or an addendum, I've also taken the time to write a new post for my Palestine blog, as well as post the second third of an old short story on this whole other blog I have. That's blogtastic!
