Kiddy's Moving Castle: Simplicity

Monday, January 23, 2006

Simplicity is a compund of "simple" and "city". A city, contrary to the word simple, is a complex and complicated place. It is hardly simple. Simplicity is an oxymoron.

By Anonymous, at 24/1/06 09:04
Are you an Eng Lang or Lit teacher? Hee...

Anyhow, well-said.

By Ze ;P, at 24/1/06 12:59
Haha teacher trying to bluff kiddy eh =P kiddy checked dictionary =P

It's simplic-ity not simpli-city.

[Middle English simplicite, from Old French, from Latin implicitās, from simplex, simplic-, simple.]

But kiddy does agree with teacher that simplicity is an oxymoron.

By kiddy, at 24/1/06 20:54
Wah lau,

Kena con by a word...its all in the heart...why bother

Wah lau....

By Anonymous, at 24/1/06 20:59
Ha ha... well, if u wanna examine everything so closely... then i guess it's never easy to have "an easy life"?

I think it's up to us to define and decide.

By Ze ;P, at 24/1/06 21:05
Dear kiddy, I didn't exactly say that the dictionary states simplicity as what I interpreted. It stemmed from my own comprehension. Well, it stimulated to you to check the dictionary. You learnt about simplicity all over again. Hurray!

By Anonymous, at 24/1/06 21:17
Dear Mr/Ms "Wah lau", please indulge my curiosity, do you mean that there is no point being bothered by words or do you mean there is no point being bothered by matters "in" the heart at all?

By kiddy, at 24/1/06 22:02