On Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:47:07 +1200 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > For > > me, it refers to a general feeling of consistency, pureness and > > standing out on its own. It's abstract and doesn't have > > anything to do with humans. > > Yep. And the proposed replacement "clean/dirty" doesn't even > mean the same thing. It's entirely possible for a thing to > be spotlessly clean without being beautiful or elegant. Well, not to mention that if you care about discrimination of people (assuming one doesn't understand what polysemy is :-)), then I'm not sure that clean/dirty is much better than beautiful/ugly (see e.g. Norbert Elias "The Civilizing Process" about how cleanliness norms historically developed - at least in the Western world - in the upper classes of pacified European kingdoms), while elegant/inelegant may even be worse. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
