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Have never intended this to be one of those internet exposes on my inner world. I'm bored by what most people think in anycase and assume the same is true for you. But, and this is really making me feel miserable at the moment, a young woman I know is in the process of deliberately starving herself to death. And that is about the saddest thing I can imagine at present. She's bright, attractive, friendly, and dammit life is so bad that she just wants to die, and what's more she's been at this little project for a year (in which time she hasn't taken solid food). And now her body is beginning to pack up and she is really going to die if she doesn't start eating. And it is breaking my heart.

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Fantastic Adjectives
Have been reading about Buddhism and Semiotics lately. The wonderfully loquacious and logorythmic Fabio Rambelli - the Italian academic who lives in Japan and publishes in English, Japanese as well as Italian (he apparently speaks French as well!). His title, Associate professor of semiotics of culture and Japanese religions and intellectual history , says it all really.

A small sample:

He describes Kukai's work as polyhedrical. Of course Fabio knows all about polyhedricality. My old favourite adjective was Autumnal. No more. One must change or become monohedrical.

Two words in Japanese (mon and monji) are synynomical variants of each other and are polysemic and ambiguous.

Plain English? Piss off!!

And finally on this topic... why is there no other words for "synonym". www.synonym.com. I also checked in my Oxford Thesaurus?! Nada, nothing, naught, nil, Sweet FA, zero, not a sausage!