Hey, clever elocution.

Synonyms for contronym: auto-antonym; antagonym,; cleave word; Janus word; enantiodrome; self-antonym; antilogism.

(As an avid reader of Finnegans Wake, I am a devotee of enantionymy.)

You might be too ingrained, indeed. A fish doesn't know it's in water and so on.

Consider: There might be a reason you only know (via workplace relationships, say) people who work better on the train than in the office. That reason might be because they gravitated toward a work environment that rewarded this kind of…

Gotcha. In which case, invite the ladies, or take it on yourselves for not knowing how to break the habit of obsolete gender roles. If there's business going on during your recreation, involve everyone on your team. If that's not possible, don't do business on your recreation. (Or maintain the status quo, and be…

Now that I think of it, what field do you work in? The economy's tight, so it there's really some sector where one of my competitors is able to pay the bills even while subsidizing the bro-style recreation of its employees, then that's a business opportunity waiting to be exploited.

It seems like you could take the money your company spends on trips, and the money it will have to pay for gender discrimination lawsuits, and simply hire employees who are capable and professional enough to be effective and creative in a work setting more structured than a backcountry camping trip.

Kurt Friedrich Gödel called; he wants his paradox back.

A scene in the car on our way home from the grocery store with a bag of live lobsters:

I like to throw some chopped celery in with the aromatics — rounds out the flavor with a nice vegetal note. Another nice variation is using hard cider instead of wine, and preceding the cider with a half-cup of halved cherry tomatoes. The resulting broth is acidic, sweet, and rich, with a nice color. Wonderful for…

That a book is scientifically obsolete doesn't make it worthless, of course. I value my copy, though I don't believe it describes reality.

This is a reprint edition; the book is much older than 2000, and its ideas — while imaginative and thought-provoking — don't integrate well into contemporary neuroscience.

Er, what you quoted isn't science. It's a message crafted for the lay public.

And then there's The Last Fairy: http://www.treasureclub.net/publichunts/la…

Cultural relativism isn't an argument we're making any longer, no?

I am quick to denounce quackery in my own neighborhood too, I assure you.

These are great anthologies — varied, surprising, delightful.

Seconding this; an idiomatic translation is called for; and this is true even if the play on words of "against time" is intended as a secondary meaning. "Contretemps" is even an idiom in English: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/contretemps. (Also cf. http://www.wordreference.com/enfr/contretem…)

I don't mind sharing this compilation of impossible colors (whose impossibility has to do with sense more than physiology, but is of interest regardless):

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That's a great scene, one in which there are plenty of influences on display: http://thewonderreflex.blogspot.com/2010/10/one-of….

Echoes of "The War With the Newts".