RIP Dave Swarbrick
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
> Swarbrick suffered from emphysema, underwent three tracheotomies [and] in 2004 he received a double lung transplant :omg: Marc
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
That's terrible news. I had the good fortune to see him play with his band Whippersnapper some years ago at a small folk club. He came across as a genuinely lovely bloke and he was, needless to say, a breathtakingly good fiddler.
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
Yes, a terrible shame though going by his chain-smoking habit on stage, he has done very well to make it this far. He even had the experience of reading his own obituary as the Telegraph reported him dead about 10 years ago. I saw him many times with Fairport Convention and playing as a folk duo with both Simon Nicol and Martin Carthy. An excellent musician, sadly missed.
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We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
Great musician, sad indeed.
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That's terrible news. I had the good fortune to see him play with his band Whippersnapper some years ago at a small folk club. He came across as a genuinely lovely bloke and he was, needless to say, a breathtakingly good fiddler.
PeejayAdams wrote:
a breathtakingly good fiddler.
That's an ironic turn of phrase. Marc
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PeejayAdams wrote:
a breathtakingly good fiddler.
That's an ironic turn of phrase. Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote:
That's an ironic turn of phrase.
Oops! It is, isn't it? Completely unintentional, I can assure you. As an aside, I'm wondering if there is a specific name for the phenomenon where a word that is entirely appropriate in one context is rendered somewhat inappropriate by an associated context. Probably more a question for a Stack Overflow language forum than a Dave Swarbrick tribute thread, I must admit, but its got me wondering ...
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Marc Clifton wrote:
That's an ironic turn of phrase.
Oops! It is, isn't it? Completely unintentional, I can assure you. As an aside, I'm wondering if there is a specific name for the phenomenon where a word that is entirely appropriate in one context is rendered somewhat inappropriate by an associated context. Probably more a question for a Stack Overflow language forum than a Dave Swarbrick tribute thread, I must admit, but its got me wondering ...
PeejayAdams wrote:
I'm wondering if there is a specific name for the phenomenon where a word that is entirely appropriate in one context is rendered somewhat inappropriate by an associated context.
> A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious ("dynamically repressed") subdued wish or internal train of thought. They reveal a "source [of ideas] outside the speech". The concept is thus part of classical psychoanalysis. and: > In contrast to psychoanalytic theorists, cognitive psychologists say that linguistic slips can represent a sequencing conflict in grammar production. From this perspective, slips may be due to cognitive underspecification that can take a variety of forms – inattention, incomplete sense data or insufficient knowledge. Secondly, they may be due to the existence of some locally appropriate response pattern that is strongly primed by its prior usage, recent activation or emotional change or by the situation calling conditions. From the fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia[^] :) Marc
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PeejayAdams wrote:
I'm wondering if there is a specific name for the phenomenon where a word that is entirely appropriate in one context is rendered somewhat inappropriate by an associated context.
> A Freudian slip, also called parapraxis, is an error in speech, memory, or physical action that is interpreted as occurring due to the interference of an unconscious ("dynamically repressed") subdued wish or internal train of thought. They reveal a "source [of ideas] outside the speech". The concept is thus part of classical psychoanalysis. and: > In contrast to psychoanalytic theorists, cognitive psychologists say that linguistic slips can represent a sequencing conflict in grammar production. From this perspective, slips may be due to cognitive underspecification that can take a variety of forms – inattention, incomplete sense data or insufficient knowledge. Secondly, they may be due to the existence of some locally appropriate response pattern that is strongly primed by its prior usage, recent activation or emotional change or by the situation calling conditions. From the fount of all knowledge, Wikipedia[^] :) Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
I'm not really sure it was a Freudian slip so much as a failure to modify something in light of the events. Had someone asked me a decade ago whether I'd seen Dave Swabrick, I'd have probably said "yes, he was breathtakingly good." I like the phrase "contextual irony" but I can only find one real use of it. "Situational irony" is a common phrase and really sounds like it should fit the bill, but (ironically enough) it means something rather different.
