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[nic-mccool]

Platonic: Octahedron

My perception of flying is skewed, I know. My perception of flying Is that I fall And then you catch me So that I never have to hit the ground; My perception of flying Is that I don't Have to tell you I need you to catch me, And you do anyway.

Conversation with you Is like jumping; The air is thin, But I don't need to breathe; I feel the wind Wash tears from my eyes; I feel the sun Give me wings of fire; I feel the fear of falling And I trust That you won't let me hit the ground.

I hope your clouds Are solid enough That I can rest upon them; Though logically This should not be the case. I hope your clouds Are more solid Than the one who taught me This is how you fly…

In reality I suppose I'll drop From a rain cloud Of my own design, Fall. And the rain Will catch up with me Only after I've hit the ground.

[authorangelita]

I'm so sleepy, but I wanted to make sure I wrote a little.

Jack tipped an imaginary cowboy hat in her direction.  "Miss Annie.  How're you?"

[twowug]

Don't You Wish There Was an Unambiguous Way to Answer This Question?

Is there a good way to answer a negative yes or no questions like this one: "Don't you want to come?"

Whether you say yes or no, the answer is, annoyingly enough, still completely unclear. (Yes, you don't want to come? Yes, you do want to come?) This has always driven me nuts.

In German, you can respond with 'doch' as a clear, simple way to say, "Yes, I don't want to come."

I wish English had some type of doch-ish terminology like this. I wonder if a doch-ish word existed in Middle or Old English? If so, when did it drop out of existence, and why did it drop out of existence?

Okay, I found an answer to my question--According to this page, early modern English had four words to choose from: yea, nay, yes, and no. Yea and nay were specifially used with positive questions like, "Do you want to come?" Yes and no were used to answer negative questions. What a beautiful system. I am sad it went away.