pmsumner

I had an urge tonight, to listen to Portishead. I've had my Eels CD in my bedroom for an age, today found the case down the side of the bed. I was getting quite worried - I haven't lost a CD case yet. Maybe the two are inter-related? I mean, finding Eels and wanting Portishead?

Anyhow. I spent ages and ages and ages on the phone tonight with terulia. We argued for a while over language. I am a passionate believer in the idea that no matter how you communicate an idea, it really doesn't matter. She disagrees.

Fairly obviously, this isn't everything that we discussed, but that's what it appears to come down to. I also appeared to hit on something which I also believe quite strongly. We (the human race) are lazy. Look at us over the past few hundred yrs. We have used up vast amounts of energy in creating machinery which makes our life easier, which removes the need for us to do things ourselves. Simple examples? The the cotton jin, the motor car, the computer, the remote control. Heck, you could even say the wheel counts, if you take the idea far enough.

The reason that I expressed this was because Irene said something about people saying "Burfday", but people would not say "Thuck you". Why not? Surely it's down to laziness. "F" is an easier sound to make than "th".

Am I right? Am I wrong? Do you agree that people are fundamentally lazy?