the lit world: introducing the NSP

Lectures. *YAWN*

u know when u can't get what the lecturer is saying? It may be cos a) u were daydreaming about lunch/dinner/the cute guy/gal sitting in front of u; b) u were too busy copying the hieroglyphs on the board and translating them into english; or c) the lecturer is actually a martian and he's lost his PowerTranslator voicebox.

in any case, the instant when that tenuous understanding disappears, that's the NSP. The Non Sequitur Point. (Non Sequitur - Lat. : 'It does not follow') When u find that going from one sentence to the next requires a leap of logic spanning the whole of the Grand Canyon.

Eg. 'ifa decision-maker satisfies the six axioms, then the expected utility theorem states that yaddayaddayaddayouruncleisamonkey [proceeds to write string of complicated and unpleasant-looking symbols]...... (YAWN oh look he's drinking diet coke instead of normal coke today)........ and that's a rough sketch of how the theorem can be proven.'

Get it?