+1 oddest thread on the lift group so far.
On May 18, 7:42 pm, "Charles F. Munat" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't know what your Ph.D. is in, but I hope it's not poetry.
>
> Chas.
>
>
>
> johnnie wrote:
> > 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
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