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Has anyone here read Jacques Derrida's Of Grammatology before? If so, could you give me the York Notes version of it? Cos I don't have the least clue what he's slabbering about >.< His arguments don't join up and he starts using words without having explained what he means by them. Like "trace": he just starts using the word "trace" but doesn't tell us what he means by it. Or "writing": he talks about writing "in the narrow sense" but doesn't explain what the widened sense is. Of course if he was here, he'd probably say that that was the point. And people have built careers and published books, explaining what Derrida's terms mean.

I hate philosophers. More especially, I hate French philosophers. And linguists. Saussure, I hate you.

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In amusing news, my little sister has to do a Powerpoint slide show for her ITC class and she's decided to do it on Batman *is amused*

( And quizzes nicked from Sparky )