Fake Tai Chi

[Drunken Monkey]

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so without having actually spoken to him, you already know that you will not "receive a well constructed, intelligible sentence in return"...

 

if you're going to make this kind of judgement against someone then at least go and speak to him first.

 

after you have heard him ramble (or not) for a while, then i would say that you are qualified to make a judgement.

 

before then any judgement is unbased and unfair.

[Beka]

No, I haven't spoken to him. But he's spoken to me. It's usually a kind of smile and nod situation. I've heard him do a lot of talking, but never have I heard anything that resembles a kind of conversive speech.

 

Trust me. Being around this guy for the past three years, I've had plenty of chances to figure out that he's mentally ill.

[Thaegen]

.... or he just could be a very wise man...

[Legion]

Dont know how you would define 'fake tai chi' once a guy knows the basic moves he can just shadow box and make it up as he goes along

[Zhong Gau]

since you are rich enough to pay for an education at berkeley why don't you first read about martin heidegger and symbolic communication before casting a vote on his inability. I mean one of my heros is a Nobel Prize winning quadraplegic who can't even speak.

 

Also check with your dean of students. If the dean was there in the mid ninties he had several conversations with the man to determine his competancies and deficiencies. And if i remember correctly, he was aprofessor at your distinguished school and suffered a stroke in the office where he worked and was found three days after the event.

 

when people have strokes they often lose thier ability to choose the words they wish to use. this happened to my dad who also was an accomplished intellectual.

 

try talking to the man he may be able to still indicate he understands you. even if you can't understand what he's trying to say continue with him as if he responded to you in a logical way. you may grow up a little as a result.