into the mouth of madness

[mwieder]

it only start here
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/173 ... 54#1732454

but continues into nine dimensions
http://www.cartania.com/starmaze/intro.html

[richmond62]

I'm sorry, but I don't see a connexion between the 2 articles referenced: although I do agree
that the first one looks utterly bonkers:
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I do wonder quite HOW the moderator worked THAT out.

And, while I am here, as a holder of a Master's degree whose thesis was in an area of Cognitive Grammar (Prototypicality Theory)
I have to say that Chomskyian Grammar is only so good as it goes, and begins to get seriously shakey at the "edges": mainly due to
Chomsky and his cohorts falling for the silly idea perpetrated by Carnap that the human 'thinking thing' (let's leave discussions re
the mind-brain identity hypothesis aside for the moment, even if I would like to rip J.J.C.Smart to bits and stamp on the ugly
bits of his crude 1=1 nonsense) works exactly like a mechanical calculator.

[jacque]

That SO post is my favorite of all time, and others agree based on the number of times it's been viewed. Richmond, it isn't nonsense. It tells a story.

[richmond62]

Richmond, it isn't nonsense. It tells a story.

Wait a mo': I did not say that was 'nonsense', I said it was 'bonkers' and the 2 adjectives mean
quite different things.

[jacque]

You're quite right, bonkers describes the descent into madness the author suffered.