Hi DMB, I knew it was bad idea to drop in that long missive just before disappearing for a couple of weeks on the road ... I'll repond to just two points ...
You said "Sorry Ian, but you don't get to decide what words mean. You can only decide to use them properly or not." And you said "I mean to insult your intelligence on account of your apparent obliviousness to the cultural, historical and philosophical meaning of these phrases." Second point first You miss my point earlier explaining that I am in no way oblivious to such meanings, in fact that's where all (most?) meaning comes from generally, and those specific terms I already made clear I understood the usual meaning. When I ask, it's not out of ognorance, but in the slender hope that someone may be interested in evolving language from old stalemates. First point last No-one decides meaning (see above), but I am entitled to use words how I choose to use them, and risk misunderstanding in an effort to make progress to new meaning. You don't wanna play, that's fine. Just keep hurling the abuse as per your intent. OK another point You said I said [My] comment about social darwinism, which you said you were comfortable with at any level in the MOQ. I doubt it. Could you gimme the specific quote. Ian On 5/18/07, david buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dmb said to Ian: 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/
