Kevin's Watch

I believe in 'X'

Can you prove that 'X' even exists? I've never seen 'X'.

You just typed 'x' twice on your post.

You've seen it.

You've used it many times today I imagine you were probably talking about axes at some point, or boxes, or oxes in boxes.

Just because not too many words begin with 'X' people tend to forget about its existence.

The fact of the matter is, that if it weren't for 'x' the human race would not be around.

Perhaps you should try reading some Dr Suess on the subject.
He has an excellent called Fox in socks were 'x' and the existence of 'x' is talked about throughout.

You believe in x? Y?

(listens to long pedantic explanation)

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....

'Z' is a poor substitute for 'x'.

'X' can be so many things;
it can be the 'ks' sound;
it can be the 'z' sound.

And those sounds can be interchangeable, thanks to the unbelievable power of 'x'

Think about it;
some people pronounce the wooden percussive instrument as
ZY-lo-phone
Some pronounce it as
EX-eye-lo-phone

Bother are correct.

When you look at 'x' that way, the world seems a better place.

'z' is nothing.
'z' can be replaced by 'x' or 's' whenever we want it to be.

Who can ever replace 'x'?

Ha! 'X' doesn't even rate a true call-out in my son's Curious George Learns The Alphabet!! It's so hopelessly unruly and unpredictable that the word they use for 'X' is....wait for it....

XMas.

Compare that with the chameleon-like ability for 'Y' to be both vowel and consonant, lost and found, mad and sane...and you'll see that 'Y' has it all over 'X'...

I hate it when people try to disprove x by noting its poor showing in Websters Dictionary.

Not too many words begin with x...but so many words contain x.

I refer you to another book by the well known philanthropist, and supporter of the letter x, Dr Suess.

In his Book, The ABC book, when he gets to the letter x, he states,

X is very handy if your name is Nixie Knox. It also comes in handy spelling axe and extra fox

And I'm sorry, but citing the profound use of y as either a consonant or a vowel, is just ignorant.

Once again, I'll direct you to Dr Suess, who in regards to y states

Big Y little y a yawning yellow yak

The yak, has long been considered the lowest creature on the planet; while the colour yellow, everyone knows is the colour of Satan. And 'Yawn'...? Need I say more?

drew wrote:I hate it when people try to disprove x by noting its poor showing in Websters Dictionary.

Ah! So you admit that 'X' is 'poor'...

I will also direct you to the good Doctor

Big Y little y a yawning yellow yak

A marvelous masterpiece of mental manipulation, an amazing and astounding act of alliteration!

Try that with 'poor X' sometime...if you dare. As you say, you won't have the dictionary to help you.

So you take everything that the dictionary says to be one hundred percent accurate?

You don't think for yourself?

And if I were you, I wouldn't try to compare myself with the allitterating geniusness of Dr Suess.

But just to be fair, we'll discuss how he alliterizes y.
He also alliterizes nearly every other letter of the alphabet, EXCEPT x!

Why? (notice I spelled it correctly)
Because x is SO profound, x is SO unique.

X is, in essence, the perfect letter.

drew wrote:So you take everything that the dictionary says to be one hundred percent accurate?

You don't think for yourself?

And if I were you, I wouldn't try to compare myself with the allitterating geniusness of Dr Suess.

But just to be fair, we'll discuss how he alliterizes y.
He also alliterizes nearly every other letter of the alphabet, EXCEPT x!

Why? (notice I spelled it correctly)
Because x is SO profound, x is SO unique.

X is, in essence, the perfect letter.

In other words, X is the Pinto* of letters...so bad it can only be called good, eh? Note you could rear-end nearly every other vehicle in 1971 except a Pinto...so profound, and so unique, so Xplosive in its amazingness...

* en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Fuel_tank_controversy

Who said pinto?

I didn't say pinto?
YOU said pinto.

thats typical of someone who believes in y. You have to make up facts to support your belief. Whereas I, don't need to.

I believe in x, because there is no other letter like x
You believe in y, because the media has forced y upon you, and you dont know how to:
a0 think for yourself
b0 see the true light of x

And lets not forget genetics.
X + X = female. You know, female, like our mothers.
X + Y = Male. Yes, male needs y, I wont deny that, but it also needs x to balance out the evil of y, because we all know what happens when x is not there.
Y + Y = Serial killers.

The main problem is that all you are citing are consonants, whose meanings can only be known by reading some book most people have never heard of for a very good reason. This book states that all meaningful letters are vowels, which can only be truly understood and appreciated if you spend years practicing diphthongs like I have.

drew wrote:Who said pinto?

I didn't say pinto?
YOU said pinto.

I was merely drawing a comparison, simile, metaphor. You know, analytical or critical thinking? The sort of thing that believers of 'X' tend to marginalize in their ignorance?

As in, X is to letter as Pinto is to automobile?

I must admit, though, when X (allegedly, because I still haven't seen 'X' even though I've talked about it alot this evening) fails at something, it does tend to be on an epic scale. Alliteration? Nah. Ease of pronunciation? Nope. Able to locate it without help from Google Maps? Nada. Seems like 'X' is always going out of its way to make things difficult.

I thought I saw the true light of 'X' the other day, then I realized that someone opened the bedroom window and I didn't have my sleep mask on.

Dr Suess?

you haven't heard of Dr Suess?

I admit, his earlier work with The Cat in the hat was a little frivolous, but once he came into his own...once he saw the light...and published the most important doctrine in the history of publishing, Fox in Socks, where the use of the letter x shines for all to see; he reserved his place with the greatest thinkers of all time.
A year later he followed it up with ABC, where as I already discussed, how he profoundly does NOT alliterate X as he does with EVERY OTHER LETTER, just shows how important x is in our lives.

if you spend years practicing diphthongs like I have

Just because you are a grown man who likes to wear thongs, doesn't mean you are unworthy of x...it just means you are too ignorant to understand x...but after years of study, you too may be able to see the light.

Rob...so you think that for a letter to be important...you think that for aletter to become meaningful...to enrich our lives...it has to be easily attainable?

Thats not just lazy, its also wrong.
No offence

drew wrote:Rob...so you think that for a letter to be important...you think that for aletter to become meaningful...to enrich our lives...it has to be easily attainable?

Thats not just lazy, its also wrong.
No offence

Almost as lazy as trying to hit the letter on the keyboard, and missing. If it's so important to you, how do you accept hitting 'D' instead of 'X'?

We each need to strive for our personal sense of what is important to us alphabetically. You may have your own reasons for making 'X' out to be this almighty thing, but for me, my own preference is 'Y' all the way. It's always there, surrounding us, lifting us with it's joY.

You can keep swinging for the fences and missing with your poor little unalliterated, unappreciated 'X'. I'll stick with my 'Y'.

well, x and I will be praying for your soul.

And I'm going to send you some interesting litterature concerning x...in fact i'd like to hand it to you in person;
just send me a map on how to get to your place...put an X where your house is.

drew wrote:well, x and I will be praying for your soul.

And I'm going to send you some interesting litterature concerning x...in fact i'd like to hand it to you in person;
just send me a map on how to get to your place...put an X where your house is.

While you're doing that, you and X can pray for us to keep these threads straight. We each keep referring to things that are happening in the other thread.

Of course that wouldn't have happened if we hadn't started out with the premise that 'X' is the 'one'. We all know that 'X' leads to chaos.

Btw, I would put an 'X' where my house is, but it'd be sitting on the right hand side of a split in the road that looks remarkably like...a 'Y'.

is Y bisexual?

if so did it choose to b e that way, or was it made that way?

I think y was made that way, as punishment from x for the blasphemy of try to emulate x.