27 November 2006
Nothing more
A propos the ‘We feel fine’ study of blogs brought to my attention by David Rafael Israel, I can report that the one time I discussed my feelings on this blog I was deliberately misreporting them so as to throw off the research. And that statement is misreportage. Then I read other people’s blogs to reconfirm conclusions about human nature that I arrived at long ago, ignoring any statements that don’t agree with my conclusions.
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It would appear you now have this down to an exact science.
I concluded in the past I would privilege emotion over science, so there can't be any scientific basis for your claim, unless my emotions compel me to contradict myself.
I can't participate in any study of emotional response without my awareness of it changing my emotional state, even if I can restrain myself from mucking it up intentionally. From now on, if I discuss the way I feel on my blog, it will be "paranoid and mistrustful."
I checked the website again and couldn't find anything about opting out of the study. Perhaps you can write to your Congressman.
Does the use of a negative modifier
(e.g. "I do not feel"...) suffice to
thwart the pesky spider-bot?
"We do not feel amused" (as it were)
I do not feel optimistic about that approach.
Incidentally (but relatedly), there is an interesting semi-slang use of "feeling" found among English speakers of (perhaps) a certain generation. I'm not clear on its precise demographic. One of the first times I noted it was from an Ethiopian woman in her early 30s, in California. The expression can, for instance, take this form (as she used it): "Are you feeling me?" (which approximately means what those of an earlier era might have phrased as, "Do you grok [or dig] what I'm saying?") I think I've heard others use it similarly -- but perhaps more like "Are you feeling it?" or "I'm feeling that" etc.
I feel I like these rather gushy but highly communicative phrases. They are clearly from the realm of spoken, rather than written, language -- though perhaps in time (if not already) they'll make their way to the latter.
I'm feeling it.
Feeling it. We need more Ethiopian Californian expressions in the language..
I think feelings are great. At the same time, I feel like thoughts are, can't think of the word, shitty. Thoughts are shitty. I didn't read the study, I just clicked on the link and looked at the heart. I felt like I got the gist.
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