According to the linguists, the "beauty" of language is just the opposite, viz. its public nature, so that private meanings are not only allowed, they categorically make no sense. This has been the rock-hard basis for modern linguistic analysis for as long as the Sun has risen. Technical terms can have technical definitions, but normal words in normal contexts, including scientific and technical contexts, must have the meaning given to them in use by their users. That is why I talked about how the word is used, rather than about how we can mean anything we want. I am definitely not an anarchist in matters linguistic. We, as programming related workers, should understand at least this about language, it has rules which are the bedrock upon which we communicate. I recommend an excellent article written by a Harvard philosopher, Stanley Cavell on this called "Must We Mean What We Say?" which is in a book by the same title.
On 4/19/05, Dave Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dakota Jack wrote: > > >I may be nuts, many have said I am on this list, unfairly, but isn't > >"rendering HTML" capable of being understood either as "rendering the > >HTML" meaning creating the HTML or "rendering the HTML" meaning > >creating the view from the HTML? At least people like David Geary > >talk about serverside rendering all the time with layout applications. > > > > > Sure, we can define it to be whatever you want, that's the beauty of > language. > > Maybe you could say "rendering a view" and the view is rendered _as_ > HTML, but the HTML still isn't rendered until it's drawn on a screen (or > other media, yeah yeah). Or maybe "rendering _to_ HTML," as one > definition of "render" means to "express in another language." > > "Rendered" sounds funny now. > > Dave > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- "You can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it float on its back." ~Dakota Jack~ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
