"Access Cannot be Accessible" part II
Much like the sign posted announcing the commencement of construction next door to my house, the construction site itself is rife with paradoxical descriptive phrasing.
My personal favorite is an earth flattening device with the slogan "super silent" scrawled across the side. Now I take offense to this not only because this very same "super silent" machine has woken me two mornings now by rattling the very foundations of my house.
No, there is a more basic problem. The advertising agency that came up with this slogan is missing a fundamental aspect of the nature of silence. You see, silence is the lack of noise. Either some thing is silent or it is not. Silence does not come in varying degrees.
So not only is this slogan a shamefully patent lie, it is also utterly meaningless.

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