On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Emily Monroe <[email protected]> wrote:
> I like formality--plus I tend not to use idioms online. Even in an > English forum, we'll have people who don't read English well, or who > can't interpret metamorphic speech very well. > Excellent points. Just a little nitpick: "metamorphic" is not used in linguistics - the lingustic term is "morphological," but I understand you probably mean "idiomatic" or 'conceptually amorphous.' Interesting point, but in reality we just use the terms "informal," "idiomatic" or "colloquial" (language/speech) to deal with expressions that are not "formal," and thus more direct. > Ah. But could you please clarify what specifically you mean by the > terms "too much" and "can happen"? > What I've already said, actually. I read everything you've written here and didn't catch any specifics. That's why I asked. > I've read a > little in the arbcom archives, and know people sometimes won't > participate in their own RfC, or won't comply with whatever consensus > there is (that was achieved through DR). If people won't participate/ > cooperate with something most definitely *on wiki*, why would they > participate on something that talks about Wikipedia? > Good point, Emily. Ironically enough though, Arbcom itself doesn't participate much in openly discussing its cases. Strange isn't it? -Stevertigo "Sunlight is the best disinfectant." - Louis Brandeis "Here comes the sun." - George Harrison _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
