dumpty

What scares me is Humpty Dumpty -- where in that rhyme does it say that Humpty Dumpty is an egg?

As Humpty Dumpty would put it, it means exactly what the speaker wants it to mean, no more, no less.

It's perfectly legal to discriminate against white and East Asian men, thanks to our Humpty Dumpty court system.

The NSA's mass surveillance has been brought to light by a former contractor; the secret is blown, the cat's out of the bag, and Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall already.

In these cases, it takes all the kings horses and all the kings men to put humpty dumpty back together again.

Imagine all the egg on Humpty Dumpty when he fell.

> The NSA's mass surveillance has been brought to light by a former contractor; the secret is blown, the cat's out of the bag, and Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall already.

But, for example, defining that pi in legal contexts is exactly three serves only to make communication impractical, as if we are trying to talk to Humpty Dumpty in Alice & Wonderland whose words mean exactly what he wants them to and nothing else.

Once you introduce so much entropy into a system the genie is out of the bottle.of course this isn't exactly thermodynamics but I can say it this way -- putting humpty dumpty together again is different than figuring out how to make humpty give you more food for decades.

Or are you an all out Humpty-Dumpty-ist ("when I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean, not more or less")?

Of course, arbitrarily humpty-dumpty incorrect usage will confuse listeners, but the style guide fusses about what "acronym" and "alternative" mean, strictly and technically.

Could Humpty Dumpty say "I like ice cream" and mean "atoms are actually divisible"?

I also didn't understand what he/she meant by "there's glory for you" even after the supposed explanation of what "glory" means in Dumpty's head.

BTW, can we also get the 'The Humpty-Dumpty Guide to Functional Programming' which is as vague as OOP.

That's what I say!' 'Would you tell me please,' said Alice, 'what that means?' 'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased.

Also, Lewis Carroll's quote: 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master — that's all.' still makes me think about how we use language.