"Mussine"
A set of sounds without definition. I like it though.
How to go about making this mis-read word mean something?
Editors of dictionaries would insist if I can get enough people to agree that a set of sounds means something, then they do.
What should "Mussine" mean? Here is the context I misread it in:
"Michael Wesch speculates that the accessibility of the internet to add and receive content is leading to a mussine paradigm shift in human thought and society."
It seemed to me to bear connotations of "novel" "ineffable" "chaotic" "capricious" "uncontrolled" "active" "self-motioned" without being able to be defined concretely.
It's as if we know there is a gigantic change occurring but can't imagine what shape this change might take.
Mussine: adj. impredictability, as in an unimaginable result of a currently occurring change.
um, ya. I don't understand any of that. Sounds like college level brain waves to me. Oh, oh, wait, I get it now. I just didn't understand the Michael Wesch sentence. It's like my humanities class. BTW, i found out that it's "Humanities 100: creative and critical thinking." we do a lot about global warming and consumption growing to great for production and stuff. I don't see how that's creative thinking. whatever. I still like the class a lot. I think i'll go check to see if he sent my assignments back yet. Hope your finals are going well. I'm pretty much ready for school to be over! 6 and a half weeks left! aaa!
ReplyDeleteHey, that's real cool. I have a pet 'Black Swan' named Mussine...
ReplyDeleteNo, really...
Oh, and I like impredictability better than unpredictability...
Love, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
;)
I'm so glad you've posted again! I have missed you & your writings. I like your definition of mussine and shall add it to my vocabulary.
ReplyDeletei like uncontrollable.
ReplyDeletegood convo today, but you up and left without saying bye. shame on you galen.
Oh, hello everyone.
ReplyDeleteI must know more about:
the black swan
global warming
preferences towards "uncontrollable"
and of course, LA and India