From Philosophical Research
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- let's eat grandpa / the first Undertale ever received / please workers only (sign installed in public place which appears to be an instruction to only obey workers) / Trotsky helped lay the foundations of the Third International galvanizing revolutionary parties around the world [1] -> the motif of an utterance which has different meanings depending on how the same set of words graphs together into clauses. (let's eat) (grandpa) vs (let's) (eat grandpa). (the first received) (Undertale ever) vs (the first ever) (Undertale received).
I have no idea why but I looked at "the first Undertale ever received" and it was immensely funny to me for no good reason. there's nothing inherently funny about there being a first person that downloaded Undertale. statistically there has to be one. it's a very mundane thing, really. but there's really something about wording it as "the first Undertale ever received". I guess, about putting it in passive voice and making it almost overly formal. like narrator-Gaster said it. "We approach its realization. The first Delta Rune ever received." it sounds like this very distanced statement of observation in the process of aiming for something else. it's a wonder how much the phrasing of something can affect its connotations.
edit: found one of these in a Trotskyist article. it's apparently possible to do them with propositions and not just language.
I took the initiative to create internet + early Trotskyism / Leon Trotsky = Trotsky helped found the Third International galvanizing the world's parties.
Cases
- Lenin and Trotsky who founded the CPSU
Ideology codes
