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Anonymous asked in Entertainment & MusicPolls & Surveys · 1 decade ago

Doesn't expecting the unexpected makes the unexpected expected?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    True.

    :-)

  • 1 decade ago

    I expect that the unexpected is unexpected unless it is expected to be unexpected which makes it unexpected even if it is expected to be unexpected.

    Its like when you go to the airport. Do you expect the plane to go down. They had a flight going from LA to Hawaii and the flight was 5050. Of course it went down but they were telling you to expect it since you have a 50/50 chance.

  • 5 years ago

    First, expecting the unexpected is NOT logically impossible. "The unexpected" doesn't have to refer to what a given individual expects. If a million people do not expect something to happen, then it is undoubtedly "unexpected." Can one person not expect it to happen? In this case, yes, "the unexpected" becomes expected as regards the sole expectant individual. Or just take simple probability, if an event is likely to occur once in 100 years, then it is unexpected that this event will happen in any given year. However, the more time that passes without that event occurring, the more likely it is that it will happen... in spite of the fact that it is unexpected to happen in any given year. So in this case it is reasonable to expect "the unexpected." This example also shows how an unlikely or "unexpected" event can become expected. Second: "unexpect" is not a verb. One cannot unexpect something. ("I unexpect the sun to rise tomorrow" sounds ridiculous, no?) The word unexpected is derived from the adjective expected by the addition of the prefix, but cannot be affixed to the verb stem to derive "unexpect." So the framing of your second question is bad... But even if you could replace the verb with one that made sense (there isn't one in English, we just do it by making it negative e.g. "don't expect," "don't foresee," "don't predict," etc.), the same logic used to make sense of your first question also applies to your second.

  • not if you never expect what is unexpect while preparing for what you expect witch could really be the unexpected but you dont know that because you just expect what you expect

    .. wow im cool 8-]

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Are you unexpecting the expectation of expecting it?

    If not, then that is true.

  • 1 decade ago

    Okay, took me a minute to get that.

    XD

    But nice question.

    No, it doesn't. It just means thaty you're expecting anything to happen if you're expecting the unexpected.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    you might expect that whatever will happen will be unexpected, but you still don't know what's going to happen and it will be nothing that you can guess... or will it? hmmm

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    It's unexpectedly expected. Whatdya expect?

  • 1 decade ago

    no time for planing in the now~ if you expect it ... it will happen.. be cautious.. if you dont expect it... theres a 50/50 chance

  • 1 decade ago

    All of the time!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Dude I know. haha

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