Sofia wrote:I thought it was one of them cunning Norwegian words.
nimh is tricky. :wink:
LOL!
Yes, "starling" was supposed to be "startling".
Actually - I have to confess something - I'd noticed my spelling mistake, but decided the new word was no less appropriate, so left it there. Tricky, indeed ;-).
Sofia wrote:And, why do you choose to be avatarless, dear?
I am avatar-less because I dont want people to relate the views or arguments I express with what they can glean about me from an avatar. Dont want that kind of cross-influence.
Thats cause I find myself greatly, if mostly subliminally, affected by others' avatars. No matter how irrational or unfair that is, and no matter how much I resolve to not do it, I find myself simply reading things differently if I know (b/c of the avatar) that someone is old, young, white, female, silly, romantic, self-important. A post that would have seemed surprisingly thoughtful next to the winking pigeon to its left, suddenly seems annoyingly pompous in juxtaposition with the all-seeing hawk the poster has chosen as self-portrait.
I actually have to correct myself for such instinctive 'contextualisations' all the time, and I dont like that. Hence choosing to want to be judged exclusively on what I write.
Of course the same kind of interference comes up, anyway, when people start relating your carefully wrought post on identity and totalitarianism in Xinjiang with the nonsense you posted in a chat thread on the advantages of juggling puppies rather than bananas ... so back in the day I even had two screennames, to keep those two dimensions apart, as well. But I kept mixing them up ;-).