Essay writing

[Tourist Tony]

On the intertextuality of verbal creativity......
My brain aches.

[FatBloke]

Sounds like bollox to me!! 

[Greenbank]

Swap it for an excerpt from current assignment (MT365):-

Explain why it is not possible to have a semi-regular polyhedron in which
exactly three faces, namely a triangle, a square and an octagon, meet at
each vertex. (It is not sufficient merely to observe that such a polyhedron
is not in the list on page 35 of the unit.)

(Please, no-one post the answer as I haven't submitted mine yet. I'm not looking for other people to do my assignment)

[HTFB]

"The intertextuality of verbal creativity" = "authors lift quotes from each other".

1) Yes.
2) Of course literary academics are keen on this, because it makes their expertise in reading books look like an actual field of study.
3) Anybody who uses the word "intertextuality" when either "allusion" or "quotation" would do needs to have their poetic licence revoked for writing without due care and attention.
4) Spot the Joycean references in this post.

[duncan]

3) Anybody who uses the word "intertextuality" when either "allusion" or "quotation" would do needs to have their poetic licence revoked for writing without due care and attention.

If you carry on like this I might even convince Ruth to sign up to a cycling forum ;-)

[Tourist Tony]

"The intertextuality of verbal creativity" = "authors lift quotes from each other".

1) Yes.
2) Of course literary academics are keen on this, because it makes their expertise in reading books look like an actual field of study.
3) Anybody who uses the word "intertextuality" when either "allusion" or "quotation" would do needs to have their poetic licence revoked for writing without due care and attention.
4) Spot the Joycean references in this post.

Nope, spot the "verbal". The conscious and unconscious reasons people echo and quote each other.....not authorial plagiarism.

[HTFB]

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Count the edges where, say, octagons meet triangles. There must be 3/2 times as many of them as there are triangles; in particular, some triangles have two such edges and others one. So there are two different classes of triangle in the polyhedron, but only one of them can be present at any vertex.

Or, more boringly, quote Euler's formula.

And note that you can't get a closed vertex figure, since 8 > 3+4.

On edit: more observations.

[HTFB]

"The intertextuality of verbal creativity" = "authors lift quotes from each other".

Nope, spot the "verbal". The conscious and unconscious reasons people echo and quote each other.....not authorial plagiarism.

Ah, but everything is a text: we're all authors here.

[Tourist Tony]

Yup, but this is restricted to the subset of texts that are utterances.

[HTFB]

Oh, if your tutors don't know the difference between "verbal" and "oral"...   

[duncan]

I couldn't resist the maths puzzle either... Solution will not appear unless I work out how to hide it like HTFB.

[Tourist Tony]

Oh, if your tutors don't know the difference between "verbal" and "oral"...   

Is the term in all the textbooks.....

[duncan]

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Triangles are certainly the key. Consider one vertex of a triangle. A square must be attached to an edge on one side of it. The other two edges must be attached to octahedrons, so the vertex opposite has just a triangle meeting two octahedrons.

[simonali]

Cyclists are clevurrr!

[Jon P]

You mean, speeches read out from texts?  Given that the opening gambit was basically meaningless, it's as well to define in reasonable language exactly what it refers to.

[Tourist Tony]

 
Nope, the subject is the study of creativity in everyday speech, ranging from bad puns to silences. Not reading aloud.

[Clare]

Nope, the subject is the study of creativity in everyday speech, ranging from bad puns to silences. Not reading aloud.

Yebbut  I had to read the OP aloud and with my finger running over the words to understand it and I still say there is at least one word in there that does not actually exist.

Also I don't understand the triangles thing, can somebody build a model please?

My brain hurts 

[Greenbank]

Also I don't understand the triangles thing, can somebody build a model please?

But that's the point, you can't build a model of it.

[Clare]

Also I don't understand the triangles thing, can somebody build a model please?

But that's the point, you can't build a model of it.

But could you build a model proving that you can't build a model? 

[David Martin]

Also I don't understand the triangles thing, can somebody build a model please?

But that's the point, you can't build a model of it.

So each vertex must have an edge from 1 and only 1 each of a triangle, square, and octagon?

For every octagon vertex you need one triangle vertex and one square vertex.

It doesn't work..

..d 

[Clare]

What's a vertex?

[HTFB]

A vertex is the point at the corner of a polyhedron, where three faces meet. An edge is the line where two faces meet.

[Jon P]

Nope, the subject is the study of creativity in everyday speech, ranging from bad puns to silences. Not reading aloud.

To be honest, if someone asked me what "verbal creativity" meant I'd say "telling lies".

Perhaps you could use as an example how the neologisms of Prof. D. N. A. Larrington BE(Nt) filter down from the lofty heights of Academia, and are used, quite unwittingly, by the common oaves? 

[rogerzilla]

On the intertextuality of verbal creativity......
My brain aches.

I think it's saying you should Google someone else's work and plagiarise it.

[Tourist Tony]

I'm plagiarising myself.....