ECT Great plainness of speech...early modern English

[Nick M]

Plainness*of*speech is an English word cluster used to translate the single Greek word "parresia"; and it, like most other English words, doesn't mean what many/most presume it means in their arrogant and ignorant presumption.

Parresia is freedom or frankness in speaking.

Being frank or candid is not obfuscating or using big words. It is straight to the point.

 

[resodko]

i used to get feedback from the board tards decrying my lack of "wit"

so i'd bump up this thread in rebuttal and lock it again

http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100387



that's william shakespeare and marcus cicero, for those too lazy to google

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

Being frank or candid is not obfuscating or using big words. It is straight to the point.

Are you speaking ontologically and forensically?

 

[Stripe]

Admit it, STP. You made those words up.

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

Admit it, STP. You made those words up.

Nuh uh, Nang just used them today in a post to heir.

 

[Stripe]

Nuh uh, Nang just used them today in a post to heir.

Who is nang? :idunno:

 

[SaulToPaul 2]

Who is nang? :idunno:

TOL's resident Ontological Forensics specialist.

 

[Nang]

:dunce::dunce::dunce::dunce:

You fellas have a hard assignment, trying to keep this place dumbed down, doncha?

 

[resodko]

they get lotsa help! :banana:

 

[Nick M]

:smokie:

:up:

 

[oatmeal]

Being frank or candid is not obfuscating or using big words. It is straight to the point.

So what are you trying to say?

 

[Nick M]

TOL's resident Ontological Forensics specialist.

She needs them for fruit inspection and to see how rotten the fruit is. Yet she still won't say at what point the food can not be eaten.

 

[Nick M]

So what are you trying to say?

I see what you did there.

 

[oatmeal]

I see what you did there.

Yes, I attempted some humor.

It usually falls flat, in so much that I told local friends that I was going to write a book entitled, "the book of attempted humor", they thought that was funny!