From: "u.r. faust" <urfaust@optushome.com.au>
Subject: Re: Another ammunition
Date: 12 Jan 2003 18:11:36 -0800
Date: 2003-01-12T18:11:36-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cnxyf1j.fsf@optushome.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: slrnb20ojp.gs7.als@thangorodrim.de
The "ammunition" analogy is pretty offputting to anyone who is
not a hard core military enthusiast.
All it does is remind people of Ada's link with the DOD.
( Just imagine how you would react if someone used
"another aids infected needle used by a junkie" as a
synonym for a good point about a language. )
--
natsu-gusa ya / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato
summer grasses / strong ones / dreams site
Summer grasses,
All that remains
Of soldier's dreams
(Basho trans. Stryk)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-13 2:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-31 10:23 Another ammunition Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-12-31 11:43 ` Eric G. Miller
2002-12-31 12:57 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-12-31 16:23 ` Alexander Schreiber
2003-01-02 6:55 ` AG
2003-01-01 16:58 ` Alexander Schreiber
2003-01-07 12:54 ` Peter Hermann
2003-01-07 13:21 ` Richard Riehle
2003-01-11 18:29 ` Alexander Schreiber
2003-01-13 2:11 ` u.r. faust [this message]
2003-01-12 12:44 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-01-14 1:24 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-01-03 9:50 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2003-01-03 15:24 ` Stephen Leake
2002-12-31 16:40 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-04 20:17 ` David Thompson
2003-01-06 17:39 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-06 20:50 ` Stephen Leake
2003-01-06 22:16 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-07 18:37 ` Stephen Leake
2003-01-07 21:55 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2003-01-01 9:05 ` Michael Erdmann
2003-01-07 13:03 ` Peter Hermann
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