Quoting david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> dmb says: > Okay, "boot" is a pretty good example. Since I live in this world too, I > realized that it was probably a reference to hearty footwear and/or the act > of putting them on and that this implies that it might be something we must > do before we start working. But what's wrong with the word "start"? What's > the point of obscuring a concept as simple as "on"? That's what I don't get. > Why do we need a word like "download" if all it means is "get"? Load makes > sense all by itself. In what sense is there a downward direction involved. > Are these files coming down off a satellite? Or is this a reference to my > status on the foodchain? > > Am I saying I could do better? That I could imagine better terms to use? > Hell yes. But that's no big claim because this is such awful, awful stuff. > Sure, once in a while there is some cleverness but mostly the lingo only > misleads and confuses in a million tiny ways. Ain't it the truth. ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ moq_discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
