From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: language standards
Date: 1997/03/06
Date: 1997-03-06T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.857664647@merv> (raw)
Jon said
<<Does this mean that you believe that there should not be any language
standards? Probably not. But that is what you are saying, even
thought that is almost certainly not what you mean.>>
Robert said
<<nope, it is not what I am saying (by any stretch of misinterpretation)>>
Jon said
<<Actually, on the face of it - it's precisely what you were saying.>>
Robert replies
nonsense! I guess you can stretch the art of wishful misinterpretation
beyond any boundary I can imagine. Of course I did not say that there
should not be any language standards. You cannot find any statement
to that effect. You think you can prove it using some faulty
syllogism based on your own ideas, i.e. you are saying something like
Dewar says A
Jon says A means B
Therefore Dewar says B
I don't think this logic would win a passing grade on a logic exam :-)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-03-06 0:00 Robert Dewar [this message]
1997-03-07 0:00 ` language standards Jon S Anthony
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-03-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-03-10 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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