Seg, 2007-05-21 às 15:43 -0700, mike3 escreveu: > Which is why I don't use the term myself. But I know what people > are referring to when they use it, and so I provided what seemed > like a plausible clarification so that the essence of what was > being said could be kept in the discussion and not have things get > caught up in semantics, thereby diverting it from the topic at hand.
Why do people so frequently think that "semantics" is a bad thing that should be avoided for fear of disgust and puke? If you don't pay attention to semantics you miscommunicate. You say things that aren't and don't say things that are. There's no need to say things in an incorrect form just because some do so. You help them understand better by not feeding their bad-semantics. Maybe you could offer them a dictionary with the words steal and copy underlined :) Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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