From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality
Date: 1999/12/09
Date: 1999-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <82ou7q$des$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 004aa0e3.b7f5c816@usw-ex0102-011.remarq.com
In article <004aa0e3.b7f5c816@usw-ex0102-011.remarq.com>,
jim_snead <basswoodNObaSPAM@my-deja.com.invalid> wrote:
> In article <82lv4i$aso$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Ted Dennison
> <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> > In article <82hk54$cbc$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net>,
> > Richard D Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > > a three level designation starting with "mistake/error", that
> produces
> > > a software
> > As a reader, you loose me right here. This kind of lingusitc
> revisionism
>
> -------------------^^^^^
>
> You can look it up, internet and email have revised the English
> language such that the term "loose" no longer means "not tight"
> but means the same as "lose" as in "lost". Another
> common net term is the completely fabricated single word "alot"
> meaning "a lot" or "many".
> These terms are not typos but learned net behavior. The studies
> make for some interesting reading.
Yes, but those are instances of practicaly the opposite phenonomon: The
set of concepts we as a society use in communicating our ideas are
constantly changing. When a new concept evolves, we have to express it
somehow. So we either make up words, or shoehorn it into already
existing ones.
That's completely different than claiming that you can somehow manage to
change the underlying concept that society has agreed on simply by
changing the set of characters used to represent it. There have been
lots of attempts to do this, but not one success.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-12-01 0:00 Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Michael P. Card
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` jim_snead
1999-12-09 0:00 ` John English
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Greg Martin
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Ray Blaak
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Jerry Maple
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-14 0:00 ` P.S> Norby
1999-12-11 0:00 ` Jeffrey L Straszheim
1999-12-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` ld
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Michael P. Card
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-12-02 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-12 0:00 ` Ronald Caudill
1999-12-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-13 0:00 ` John Duncan
1999-12-13 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
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