Free Speech

  Free Speech Just as it often happens, one bright, sunny day two professors met halfway across the green at a prestigious, great American university.“Hi, Frank.”“Hi, John.”“Um, assumptions 1 through 47, 56, 92, and 190 through 197, with the usual exceptions for 13b and 17g, with our regular qualifications on 194.”“So stipulated, with the addition of 73c and 73d, and with liberty to interpret generalizations according to the Interuniversity Treaty of Discourse, Section 24, as amended.”“Agreed. So, how’s it going?”“Fine, fine (in accordance with Characterization Rule 6 of the Informal Interaction Protocol, Chapter 19, Section 102.43f, paragraph 37). How about you?”“Great (as understood as a hyperbolic colloquialism per the Findings of the Ad Hoc Committee on Exaggeratory Declamation). Um, nice weather we’re having, huh? (as understood by Ruling 384c, Paragraph 5, of the Committee to Investigate Hegemonic Small Talk.)”“I concur (as an interpersonal exchange agreeability response as defined by the Conversational Harmony Ruling of the Committee to Investigate Hurtful Speech, and without warranty or claim of correspondence to the actual atmospheric conditions, together with the right of no-fault recantation at any point, under either necessity or arbitrary decision, without a reason requirement).”Now, it so happened that an ignorant freshman had been sitting on one of those uncomfortable concrete benches easily within hearing rang...
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