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laceblade ([personal profile] laceblade) wrote2008-09-30 08:08 pm

"Ideas can be absorbed through osmosis."

Okay. So tonight's episode was the best one so far, in my opinion. Some little things still bother me, but overall, I cared about every main character and what happened to them. I sympathized with all four of them. Go, show, go!



AS FOR TERMINATOR. Charley's wife used my cell phone, and that's about all I have to say. Of course, I haven't watched this week's episode yet, :O

[identity profile] homo-nescius.livejournal.com 2008-10-01 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
You know, I'm usually not picky about things like this, as a general rule I try not to be an asshole and this particular issue really isn't even that important to me (the difference between etymology and entomology, for example, is actually important to me).

Yet for some reason every time I hear someone allude to learning through "osmosis" I have the compulsive need to correct it. It's "diffusion," unless of course you're putting the information and your brain into a pool of water and the water is transferring the ideas into your mind. Osmosis uses water. Diffusion does not. I guess it's ok to be a jerk, I'm sure the writers of this show don't read your blog anyway.