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Well, I have to plead guilty. I'm supposed to be making sure these types of things don't happen, not add to them. My goof. Anyway, it won't happen again.
Mike, if you ever try to get me started again, it'll be my magic wand time for you!
After a couple of re-reads and careful reflection, I would suggest that Zander's question remains unanswered, depending upon one's frame of reference.
Mike - the sound of a tree falling in the woods is interpretive and yes, it could correlate to what one was "supposed" to be listening for; however, this is quite different from a man saying something in the woods. There is also a need to address whether it was pine, poplar, aspen, maple, oak or birch. Further, if was birch - did it still have its bark or was that stripped to make one of those little canoes?
McTavish - You raise a good point and its similar but perhaps a little too generalized. Zander specifically referenced "the woods", which by its very nature should permit a female in close proximity to differentiate what was actually said from that which she thought she heard. However the stipulation here, as in your example, is that no woman is around. That still leaves us in a quandry.
Zander - While I think you are safe and your signature question remains unresolved and intact, the very fact that Admin posted a Hijack This Log of sorts could be an admission that there are no woods in Las Vegas or Malta to adequately test this postulate. (thus the reprimand, Mike)
The question as I see it is still dependent upon one's frame of reference. I don't know how anyone can answer this but my wife tells me the man is wrong, especially if he thinks he can slip one past mother nature.
my wife tells me the man is wrong, especially if he thinks he can slip one past mother nature.
My wife concurs with Rockster2U's wife on this.
Mother nature is indeed of the female gender, derived from the fact that it can be warm fuzzy and happy to cold nasty and mean in seemingly a blink of an eye with no provocation.
Therefore "speaking in the woods" we are still wrong because there is no chance of not being heard by a "woman". and we should not delude ourselves about ever being right unless the only words we speak are....
Darn you Mike. In your attempt to relieve me of this burden (quest) that I carry, all you've done is gone and made it worse. More to ponder now. How am I supposed to sort this all out now? Do you have a cleanup routine for this can of worms you've opened up too?
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my wife tells me the man is wrong, especially if he thinks he can slip one past mother nature.
Rock, I laughed at that. You're wife's a thinker. Not good for you!
LOL, we really have too much leisure time these days.
I had to go into my profile to turn on signatures to actually see what your signature was Zander. I had just assumed it must have been the one about the tree making a sound, so when I butted in I thought I was being original.
BTW, the answer to that original riddle of does a tree make a sound if nothing is around to hear it – is no.
Did you know that colour does not actually exist?
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? - Stupid question, the egg of course.
