February 29, 2004

• Types of Ambiguity

  1.  Oscar: military phonetic for the letter ‘O’

  2.  “… this symbol among the Greeks was more circle than dot, but among those in India, more dot than circle.”

  – Robert Kaplan, The Nothing That Is:
  A Natural History of Zero

  3.  A bindi is an auspicious mark worn by young girls and women. Bindi is derived from bindu,
  the Sanskrit word for dot.  It is usually a red dot made with
  vermilion powder which is worn by women between their eyebrows on their
  forehead.  Considered a symbol of Goddess Parvati, a bindi
  signifies female energy….

  – Indian Customs & Traditions

  4.  Sometimes I feel so reckless and wild
  Sometimes I feel like a motherless child
  I gave nobody life, I am nobody’s wife
  And I seem to be nobody’s daughter
  So red is the color that I like the best
  It’s your Indian skin and the badge
  On my chest
  The heat of my pride
  The lips of a bride
  The sad heart of the truth
  And the flag of youth
  And blood that is thicker than water

  – Shawn Colvin of Vermillion, SD,
      “The Story” lyrics

  5.  Hamlet  Do you think I meant country matters?
  Ophelia  I think nothing, my lord.
  Hamlet  That’s a fair thought to lie between maid’s legs.
  Ophelia  What is, my lord?
  Hamlet   Nothing.

  6.  Macbeth  ”…. a tale
  Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
  Signifying nothing.”

  7.  Enter a Messenger.

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