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羅伯特‧海萊恩(Robert Heinlein)在他幾本小說裏指出了文明滅亡前的一些「警訊」。最近觀察社會上各種古怪普遍現象,突發奇想,特撰此文,拿出幾點較重要的對照一下,分析看看台灣這個「文明」是否已經到了癌症末期。


(二)語文能力的衰退

海萊恩原本說的是「文盲率的增高」。時代不同了,因為義務教育的普及,基本閱讀書寫能力已經不是什麼大問題。所以我斗膽擴大這個部份的範圍,改為「整體語文能力的衰退」。這大致上又可以粗分為語文應用及語文演變。

先談語文應用,因為這個跟前面講的理性思維有點關係,不過例子太多了,有點不知道要從何說起。之前的文章提到過的在網路小說裡常看到的一些邏輯不通的文章,在此我就不重複了。請看【網路小說之一、三人稱混淆】及【不可思議的中國意淫小說】。這裡我舉一個最近看到的好例子 ……(繼續閱讀)

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羅伯特‧海萊恩(Robert Heinlein)在他幾本小說裏指出了文明滅亡前的一些「警訊」。最近觀察社會上各種古怪普遍現象,突發奇想,特撰此文,拿出幾點較重要的來對照一番,分析看看台灣這個「文明」是否已經到了癌症末期。


(一)理性思維的衰退

我之前在【科學雜想】一篇提到:

現在科學昌明嗎?像現在這種一打開yahoo就有一堆算命的東東跑出來,一堆人一窩風求名牌買彩券,迷信氣功星相玄學的世界,根本不能算是科學昌明。充其量只能說是科技發達吧。

這是一個極為普遍的現象,似乎一百年來的科學教育完全無法改變大眾的宇宙觀,科技的發展與普遍大眾的思維觀念完全無法同步。用電腦算紫微斗數之類的就是一個例子,有如巫師手持碳纖維法杖,身穿科弗勒盔甲,在一萬公尺高空的超音速客機裡大跳乞雨舞 ……(繼續閱讀)

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Prisoned Mirage

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree,
Where Garden the sacred road ran
Through decadence measureless to man
Down to South China Sea.
So twice five miles of barren ground
With walls and towers were girdled round,
And there were windows bright with sinuous lights,
Where reflected many a money-crazed glee;
And here were offices still busy at nights,
Imprisoning bright mirage of luxury.

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Sailors

For some hidden Freudian reason, almost all beginner’s Latin books begin with vocabularies of “farmers”, “daughters”, “sailors”, and several seemingly innocent verbs describing various things these nouns can do to each other. Throughout the years, countless British school boys have probably been secretly making up adolescent fantasies from those memorable passages containing these beginner’s vocaburaries, not knowing the true historical account of these events.

Now, finally, a Latin book tells you what really went on between the farmers’ daugheters and the sailors: ……(read more)

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Male Brain

This is the first post since I switched from Blogger to Wordpress. I had wanted to write a little something detailing my customization efforts with Wordpress using PHP and MySQL. I managed to put together my own multi-lingual theme (in case you haven’t noticed, the sidebar is fixed in Latin while the interface of a post will automatically match the language of the post), which was fun, and might be instructive to someone who is also trying to learn how to customize Wordpress……but alas I am not going to write about it now. Perhaps some other time.

What I want to write about, actually, is the mind ……(read more)

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「好,我了解這些符號代表了數字,那這些又是啥?」我指著另一組符號問道:「它們看起來像是數字,可是上面又多了一個奇怪的符號。」

「這符號代表一個嘿咻」嵐狡星人一號眨了眨他的六隻眼睛,道。

「嘿咻?啥米東東?」

「我們接觸你的語言只有幾天,無法得知你們是不是有對應的概念,」在一旁的嵐狡星人二號揮了揮它的觸角道:「不過,你對數字的概念應該跟我們一樣吧,通常日常生活會用到的數字以及剛剛討論過的四則運算,全部都可以用一條線上的點來表示。」

我道:「沒錯,我們叫那為數線。」

一號二號的觸角互相點了幾下,雙方嘴裡發出極高聲調的嗶嗶聲;依這幾天的經驗,我知道他們是在整理及記錄這個新的辭彙。過了一會,一號道:「在這條數線上,『零』的概念不是剛剛你說的『什麼都沒有』,而是代表一個起點。從零點開始沿著數線往一邊走,就是『趴趴啦』的概念,所有數線上的點都叫做趴趴啦數,離零點越遠數目越大;往另一邊走,就是『劈劈哩』的概念 ……(繼續閱讀)

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“There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.”

- Dr. Russell to his son, Clifford, in “Have Space Suit, Will Travel” by Robert A. Heinlein

This quotation from one of his novels pretty much sums up Robert Heinlein’s philosophy towards life. Actually, I am quite jealous of Clifford, and why I didn’t have a father like his in my youth to dish out cool admonitions disguised as clever one-liner adages is not something I wish to dwell upon. Well, dad is really okay; he’s just not the wisdom-dispenser type. In any case, I still had the Great Robert Heinlein, and he sure didn’t have a shortage of these little gems of wisdom. Here’s another one ……(read more)

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最近世界上發生了很多狗屎爛事:

(一)披著共產社會主義外衣的資本極權強盜國家弄出了一條併吞他國的法律,基本上是拿來自己打手槍用的。

(二)人家招招手,一群狗命團就歡天喜地,吐舌搖尾地跑去這個強盜國家,「代表」區區百分之十幾的人民率先投誠,基本上是替人家打手槍。

(三)一個無病呻吟的歌手照慣例寫了一些沒有邏輯的弱智歌曲,被一個口吐白沫的民粹政黨吐槽。

(四)被吐後,這個歌手開了一個記者會,哭夭他一生都被各政黨「追殺」(被追殺的人還可以光明正大的開記者會,有夠稀奇)。那個無知無畏滿腦子婦科娼妓的智障還跑來替此歌手撐腰,又自以為風趣的講了一個沒有邏輯的「妙喻」 ……(繼續閱讀)

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For the hip and the stylish, the iPod is a symbol of ultra coolness standing on the bleeding-edge of minimalist fashion. For me, it’s the ultimate geek-o-box. This is the top-ten list of geekiest things I have on my iPod.


10. The entire five-book-trilogy of Douglas Adam’s “The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” series, read by none other than Douglas Adam himself. Yes this is only the tenth geekiest thing. Read on ……(read more)

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別被標題唬了,這裡說的中國當然是「世界上只有一個」的中國(醒目的人要再加上一句「世界上所有華人居住的地方都是其不可分割的一部份」)。所以我要幹的,當然是這個智障國家搞出來的簡體文字。

其實,我對「簡化漢字」這個前提是沒啥意見:「简体」寫起來的確是比「簡體」要少那麼幾劃。而且我不但看得懂簡體字(看過的簡體書還蠻多的),上中國網站嘲笑熱血糞青愛國童智的時候,也是用他們的漢語拼音打他們簡體字(雖然不是用寫的……不過打字打了二十幾年,不管是啥文字,要我現在用手寫大概也不行了。也許叫我表演肛門插筆馬步寫字還比較容易些)。

言歸正傳。要簡化漢字是沒關係,問題在於你怎樣簡化 ……(繼續閱讀)

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