"Joke" (was Re: Spivak & Eagleton)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>In a message dated 00-01-30 21:21:15 EST, you write:
>
><< Didn't Wittgenstein say that 'words are deeds?'  Well, call me too-
> sensitive on this, but my eldest daughter's life tells me one
> shouldn't throw slang word 'psycho' around.   >>
>
>That doesn't sound like anything Wittgenstein would say. Austin wrote a  book
>on performatives called How To Do Things With Words.
>
>Are you still going on about someone calling Yoshie a psycho-cybernetic
>Stalinist? A joke I thought was rather good, and I bet she didn't take it
>amiss, either. I raed the "psycho" not as suggesting that she was crazy but
>as indicating a fascination with things psychological.
>
>--jks

In the land of feedom & equality, justice & liberty for all, a man has an
unlimited right to make himself look as vapid & ridiculous as he likes.  So
in this case the joke is on Dan, you, and the moderator of the list.

Yoshie