You said evil is live spelled backwards, and judging by the letters I'm
inclined to agree with you, but I suspect you were trying to ascribe meaning
to the words; you should know by now that words have no meaning, especially
when compared to one another - try looking up some words in the dictionary
one of these days and you'll be surprised by what they mean. I'll grant you
that evil is live spelled backwards if you'll grant me that it don't mean a
goddamn thing. ...I'm waiting. No? Fine, be like that, see if I care.
Are you saying that live is the same as evil because it's spelled the
opposite, or live is the opposite of evil because it's spelled the opposite?
Does it have to be opposite, or do anagrams count too? Vile and Elvi (vile
you know, and Elvi is more than one Elvis for people whose i key works
sporadically), are these evil and live, or the opposite to them? If you're
telling me Elvis is dead, young missy, you and I are gonna have to step
outside (he's not dead, he's nailed to his perch like an ex-Jesus, "Pining
for the Gethsemene?") Your argument is a crock of sham heated by lies and
idle rumour: "Evil is live spelled backwards" indeed. Deary me. Bunch of
horse shit, and I know horse shit when I eat it.
I'm not having a go at you, I'm just asking that you're more careful in
future when slandering two of our longest serving, highest regarded words.
I'm helping you. I'm on your side, it's just that here you're wrong. Oh, but
don't worry about it, don't let being wrong get you down: if we weren't
wrong from time to time we wouldn't have people who are always right.
Liv or lyve? Don't matter none either way, cos they don't make sense. Liv is
(or is the opposite of) evil. Umm... hello? Li'l grammar? Lyve is evil.
Lyve? What's wrong with lyve? Lyve music? Lyve rats? Get a freakin' noun,
lady. Say life is efil spelled backwards, say alive is evila spelled
backwards, and your argument is empowered by being grammatically stronger.
Every argument is won not be he or she who is right, but by he or she who
speaks English the goodest, and that's true because I read it in a
newspaper.
Or by he or she who calls the other he or she a racist first. Lady, you're a
racist. What about all those fine upstanding human beings throughout this
world who don't speak English? What of them? What of the French? I bet you
didn't even think of the French did you? For them evil and live have no
meaning, unless they also speak English. What of the poor little French with
their three words for evil, liv and lyve (goats, staog and staog)? What of
them? The Spaniards have video, oediv and oediv, the Russians have
canopener, reneponac and reneponac (with some of the Ns being backwards),
the Chinese have ennui, iunne and iunne. None of those words that mean evil,
liv or lyve are evil, liv or lyve, are they? Do you see your eighteenth
fatal flaw?
I'm not shouting, I'm just helping you for next time. You'll get it right
next time, I'm sure of that. If you must persist with spreading the
mysteries of spelling amongst the people, perhaps you could say "Evil is
live spelled backwards, but don't think that there's any sort of meaning
involved, because there isn't." And smile.