William Morse  wrote:

> jimmenegay{at}sbcglobal.net (Jim Menegay) wrote in
> news:ca2sho$uv3$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org: 
> 
> > john_SPAM{at}wilkins.id.au (John Wilkins) wrote in message
> > news:... 
> >> Perplexed in Peoria  wrote:
> >> > "John Wilkins" 
wrote in message
> >> > news:c9nhga$ism$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org...
> >  [snip]
> >> > > Teleonomy is goal-seeking behavior, teleology is
goal-directed
> >> > > behavior. Shannon building a telegraphy system for Bell is 
> >> > > teleological, because Shannon is a gaol-directed system.
> >> > 
> >> > Surely all of Shannon is not gaol directed - only the heavy
> >> > drinking, football watching portion of the population.  ;-)
> >> 
> >> Claude Shannon was a population? Are you going all Minskyan on me?
> >  [snip]
> > 
> > I chose to misinterpret your second "Shannon" as a reference to 
> > the region, rather than the man.  Perhaps I would have been clearer
> > if I has said "rugger playing" instead of
"football watching".
> > 
> > http://www.shannondev.ie/VintageRugby/index.html
> > 
> > That would have made "heavy drinking" redundant, as well.
> 
> I think  John did not recognize that he had misspelled
"goal" - and I am
> not sure that Australians readily recognize gaol as jail - but then most
> Americans don't either. I for one thought your deliberate 
> misinterpretation  was quite clever, even though I have never heard of
> Shannon as a region, and tend to immediately assume that football refers
> to the American variant, rather than either association football or rugby
> football :-)
> 
Oops. No spellchecker on MacSOUP...
-- 
John S Wilkins PhD - www.wilkins.id.au
  a little emptier, a little spent
  as always by that quiver in the self,
  subjugated, yes, and obedient.  -- Seamus Heaney
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