After a couple of weeks of discussion, I was offered $2400 to do a job. I replied with the math that showed that it was more like a $4000 job. This was yesterday morning, and I haven't heard back, and it feels auspicious.
I think there has to be something behind "no news is good news" more than "if you haven't heard otherwise, there is still hope." Is there a bias that bad news comes quickly? Given our comfort with the status quo, no news is good news. I don't know enough about semantics to explain this (by which I mean "make myself clear"), but no news = good news seems to be different than saying that no news has a property that makes it good news the way that a cardinal has a property that makes it red.
Also, pragmatically "good news" seems to me primarily like it is used to negate existing bad news. Good news, then, is not no news.
And then put into some real-life contexts, "no news is good news" just means that the absence of X can be interpreted in a positive manner. Which would inidicate that X is negative - "news is bad news." So no bad news is good news. Why do I do this to myself? I wish I remembered more formal logic - I don't even remember if "no news" would be illustrated with (~backwards E) or (~upside-down A). But there you have it friends. No bad news is good news. You heard it here first.
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What about all the good news coming out of Iraq?
Word Verification: wsxtvw: A dyslexic single, white person from either West Virginia or Texas.
Word verification is the new Balderdash.
wsxtvw: a music festival for transvestites.
Was just stopping by to read the letter sequence for the music festival. But then I was presented with this gem:
dbfxu (v) - Getting fucked over by a database.
I think there could be something here for a NewsCenter 5 image campaign. Parsing now. Will send check and a Channel 5 t-shirt if your idea is used.
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