Information Pathology Pathologist Oxymoron
With all the ongoings ('raves') at twitter and the various other social networks, with experts who teach about things that they don't do themselves ...
I tweeted about:
"Found 40-something blogs that gave advice on how to install a tweetthis button, but none of them had one installed themselves. Experts !!!"
I remembered that some time ago I'd taken a look into a book (a German dissertation) that dealt with 'Information Pathology'. So as I'm quite often in a kidding mood I tweeted that I ...
"Hm, I wonder if I should put the term 'Information Pathologist' into my (twitter)bio ..."
Paul Swansen replied and I got somehow encouraged (thanks Paul).
Then Michael Toro (on facebook) educated me (thanks Michael) that Information Pathology might be an oxymoron. An Oxymoron? Oh lala!
I had no idea what that is.
What is it?
Well an oxymoron (sounds like a washing powder or some kind of oxygen-sect) is a collocation of words that have opposite meanings (must have something to do with brain washing - hm - maybe) :).
Opposite, thus meaning to be contradictory or incongruous.
Good.
The cup wasn't full yet so I forgot about further 'rational' researches and got engaged with anagrams.
As the anagram-server seems to carry heavy loads sometimes (hehe) I'll post here some results for'Information Pathology'.
You are very welcome to share your thoughts in the comments. Thank you.
As I said always:
"Ones Noise -> Anothers Signal and Ones Signal -> Anothers Noise".-
Information Pathology: Do we just see what we want to see?
What kind of words (anagrams) stand out?
Lightproof, Flighty, Hotfooting, Frothing, Fright, Fight, Filming, Foghorn, Flirting, Informing, Inflight, Fortnight, Topflight, Flight, Flighty, Hoofing, Frothing and a long row of shorter ones.
Which ones did I consider to be somehow funny and/or appropriate?
Lightproof Tiny Moon
Flighty Motion Porno
Fight Promotion Only
Foghorn Moonlit Pity
Filming Toothy Porno
Flirting Typhoon Moo
Informing Hypo Lotto
Inflight Room Yon Pot
Flight Monitory No Op
Flight Onion Mop Troy
Flight Notion My Poor
Flight Potion Norm Yo
Flight Riot Moon Pony
Flighty Portion Om On
Hm, I don't know what 'hoofing' is and 'hotfooting', 'frothing' , and 'fortnight'???
Fright Limo Onto Pony
Fright In Monopoly To
Fright Notion Loop My
etc. etc. ....
Ok, there are some to go. You can find the whole anagram bunch (1000) at wordsmith.
Soooooo, what or your thoughts to the subject 'INFORMATION PATHOLOGY'.
Could you consider yourself to be something or somebody like an 'Information Pathologist'?