On May 17, 5:28 pm, Timothy Perrett <[email protected]> wrote: > Johnie, > > What on earth are you going on about? You qoute me there from a > convesation on-list with Heiko about OSGi... out of context it makes > no sense of course... > ... Yes, Funky makes no sense if it means "very good" to one person and "very bad" to another person. So why not just say very good or very bad if that is what you mean? I see no reason for Geeks to make things more confusing by using local slang instead of simple language.
I have notices as I lived in several countries where various languages were spoken that the two groups of people who misuse language most are Geeks and lowest class such as druggies and criminals. The people of ancient Ashdod were condemned for making Babel even worse. Only twice since then has the world enjoyed a near lingua franka. I would hate to see simple English die like koine Greek because certain classes want to communicate in ways that are confusing. A group of linguists were eating together at the University of Michigan years ago. I started a conversation by inviting everyone to proclaim why their language should be adopted by the rest of us. One person proposed that Arabic should be preferred because it was one of the most difficult. My vote went for koine Greek because the affixes make it so easy to understand. In fact it is still so easy that most new pharmacituals are a combination of Greek roots because the meaning of new words can be ascertained the combination of simple roots. So why would anybody who wants other people with other native languages and cultures use words which mean very good in one context and very bad in another context? Do you want to play the difficult game of writing a computer program which explains context? I believe I can write that program for a lot of koine Greek. I do not believe you or anyone else can write it for the class of modern English which includes funky. Johnnie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
