I will refrain from pouncing on Steve Comstock for misspelling 'Murphy'. He
may well have done it disingenuously.
I am grateful to those who defended my post, and I will venture a further
comment. Too much attention was devoted to manner as opposed to matter in the
posts that were critical of me.
I made some observations about what about multitasking had been ignored in the
posts preceding mine, and with one honorable exception that supplements what I
said very usefully, the substance of what I said has been ignored in favor of
discussions of my, it would seem, oversized vocabulary.
On this and other occasions I have noted that those who have nothing of
material interest to contribute often focus on manner instead of matter,
presumably in order to have something to say; and this is a major problem:
IBM-MAIN is beset by literal logorrhea.
Much of what has been said in this thread is thus, predictably, nonsense. The
French words 'naif' and "naive' are, for example, both nouns/substantives and
adjectives, masculine and feminine ones respectively. One can write/say both
'un garçon naïf' and 'un naïf', or 'une fille naïve' and 'une naïve'; and
neither has any pejorative connotation absent from 'débutant' and 'débutante',
the masculine and feminine forms of the French word for novice.
Let's kill this thread or refocus it on multitasking per se.
My vocabulary has been adequately canvassed. I shall not abridge it; and those
who are distressed by it need not be; they have a simple remedy at hand: they
can put my email address on their kill lists.
John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA
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