Ninja Lessons!!! BE a Ninja!!!I'll let you know if I get a reply to my email query.
*Fight Multiple Enemies
*Standard and unusual Weapons
*Defy gravity
*Invisibility
*Heightened Perception
*See into the future
*Assassination Techniques
*Invulnerability
*Life-Extension
Beginner and Advanced Classes Forming Now
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Call: [XXXXXXXXXXX]
Email: [xxxxxx]@gmail.com
Sunday, May 10, 2009
What I'll be doing this summer
I was just aimlessly wandering around the part of my city that's most overtly catered to the soon departing college students, and I came across a post bearing a flyer advertising the following (verbatim):
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what was the email you sent them?
are you looking to take into your own hands the assassination of those rockstars you so hate?
Do you get an "I am an Ninja" button or card or badge at the end? I hope so.
Is defying gravity like defying your parents?
Did the number and email actually have Xs, or did you mean verbatim in the figurative sense?
Dear Public Philosopher,
I meant that the account of what was being advertised was presented verbatim. Since you seem unaware of the conventional use of the brackets, let me help you out: they're introduced when an otherwise verbatim quotation includes an editorial comment, grammatical correction/alteration, or redaction. I'll leave it to you to figure out which of these uses is in play here. If you need help, let me know. I'm happy to assist.
Spiros, what a coincidence! I just spotted a flyer in a hallway of my college that was quite similar to the one you spotted.
Department Chair Lessons!!! BE a Chairperson!!!
*Fight Multiple Enemies (Administrators, Students, Faculty, Staff, Your Own Hope to Publish Again)
*Standard and unusual Weapons (Gruffness, Ambiguity, The Furious Fist of Heinous Scheduling, The Lethal Kick of Committee Assignments, Death and/or Insanity-by-Meeting)
*Defy Laws of Nature (Department Operating Budgets; Creation Ex Nihilo—or Less)
*Invisibility (The Hidden Chair: If they can’t manage to find you, they can’t ask you for anything.)
*Heightened Perception (Direct Contact with Universal Blame and Condemnation)
*See into the future (Visions of Doom)
*Assassination Techniques (Tenure and Promotion Review, Contract Renewal, Sabbatical Requests)
*Invulnerability (Anti-depressants, Nihilism, Abiding Misanthropy, Heavy Drinking)
*Life-Extension (Solace in Service to the Institution and its Survival—despite the years off your lifespan comparable to smoking three packs a day.)
Beginner and Advanced Classes Forming Now
Free of charge
Please, won’t somebody come?
Anybody?
Call: [XXXXXXXXXXX]
Email: [xxxxxx]@xxx.edu
I’d much rather be a ninja…keep us posted.
I only meant my comment as a not-particularly-serious tease, but I have to say that my experience differs from the details of your explanation, but that might have to do with my computer background.
In my experience, the use of brackets you cite is a general convention of quotation. It is expected that those words that appear in quotes are something that was actually said or written, with certain exceptions, one of which being the use of brackets to clarify or alter the words said or written. The expectation, if brackets are used, is that what is in the brackets was not precisely what was said or written.
However, there are occasions in which someone might have actually included brackets in some piece of text, and an author including a quote containing brackets would normally need to indicate that. One way to do this is to say "(italics/brackets his)" after the quote. I am used to the word "verbatim" being another way of indicating that the quote was completely unmodified (and therefore any italics, brackets, ellipses occurred in the original quote). Perhaps the word is understood differently in different fields.
Are you an assassin? You're just an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect an overdue bill. But the defying gravity thing is pretty cool.
Philosophical ninjas as agents of JUSTICE?
Shades of Carl Douglas--
That Kung Fu fighting IS a little bit frightening!!
The rest of my post will reveal what my study of the martial arse has revealed to me about the future, but will be of course
Well? did the Ninja teacher reply?
I wish Kolak would have offered "Be Nietzsche!" classes. I think the Ninja classes may provide as much comic material.
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