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An den, fur hiz reely sekkund sirprize, he confussles teh drower fur teh lidderbauks!
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*wawlks tu nawty barn insted uv commintin on “treshurs” en unnurware drower*
vanishedone commented on the word drower
Why is this word on the Wordie Paradox list? It seems free of glitches and bizarre behaviour.
February 12, 2009
plethora commented on the word drower
I was wondering the same thing, actually. Just never got around to commenting on it.
February 12, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word drower
Besides being reword backwards, 'drower' is similar to the word 'drawer' which has parallel meanings to LOGOS ( the greek word for word). As Martin Heidegger speculated in Heraclitus's fragment B50 use of logos in his book, 'Early Greek Thinking'(page 76-77); logos literally translates according to Heidegger as 'laying-that-gathers'. 'logos' and 'word' perform the same function a drawer performs. This is the essence of the paradox and why the word is included in this list. My expectation is twisted by a hidden truth within the word.
April 16, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word drower
I don't think that's the sense of paradox Asativum had in mind; but that's for the listmaster to decide upon.
April 16, 2009
bilby commented on the word drower
I may be a word paradox. It's totally not a Wordie Paradox.
April 16, 2009
yarb commented on the word drower
What does a drawer have to do with "laying-that-gathers", and if the paradox is about drawers, why are we talking about it on drower? And what the hell is a drower, anyway?
April 16, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word drower
It seems to be a surname.
April 16, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word drower
Would it be a wordie paradox if it were 'eidrower'? Who is the authority other than the listmaster? Define what 'wordie paradox' means.
April 16, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word drower
For the sake of those of you who do not have access to pre Socratic philosophy - Heraclitus fragment B50 - Heidegger translation: "Do not listen to me,the mortal speaker, but be in hearkening to the Lying-that-gathers (LOGOS):first belong to this and then you hear properly; such hearing is when a letting-lie-together-before occurs by which gathering letting-lie,the Laying-that-gathers (LOGOS),lies before us as gathered: when a letting-lie of the letting-lie-before occurs, the fateful comes to pass;then the truly fateful, i.e. destiny alone, is:the unique One identifying All." Sounds like a definition of wordie process to me - paradox and all. It takes a time to dra(o)w it out.
April 16, 2009
rolig commented on the word drower
It all sounds rather Kinbotish to me.
April 16, 2009
yarb commented on the word drower
Yes it does, and I'm still not seeing drawers.
April 16, 2009
asativum commented on the word drower
Wow. Just stumbled across this. I can't say it fits with my original concept of the Wordie Paradox, but what the heck, it's an interesting (if vaguely surreal) conversation...
June 15, 2009
bilby commented on the word drower
"I can't say it fits with my original concept of the Wordie Paradox."
June 15, 2009
sionnach commented on the word drower
Interesting visual!
June 26, 2011