This guy has never met my friends

[pecunium]

Language, however, puts information first and manipulation second. Suppose I were to explain to you Einstein's theory of relativity, or Chomsky's theory of a biologically based language organ. My purposes in giving you the information might well be that of impressing you, or even ultimately mating with you (although anyone who could be induced to mate by such means would have to be pretty weird).

Adam's Tongue Derek Bickerton p. 48

Comments

[jonquil]

Dude. I'd be unlikely to mate with a guy who couldn't explain, at a high level, at least one of the above. (Granted, I am not currently in the mate-seeking business, nor do I plan to be, Fates willing.)

[pecunium]

Well, I think he's being euphemistic for sex, but yeah.

On a different note, are you in the companion for lunch seeing business, before I wend my way east for the summer?

[jonquil]

I'd love to try. How soon do you go? (I'm still in the sleep-all-day phase of shock, which I hope will end soon.)

[pecunium]

I leave a week from Saturday.

I have Thursday free, but no transport (though I will be in close proximity to Google), and Friday, and some strange mix of time the week after.

What are you in shock about (I have been terribly remiss in keeping up with much of anything)?