On 9/22/06, Robert D. [email protected] wrote:
No I have to say that I find this a very interesting and didactic thread,
look e.g. at your statement
“Boy, we really love to argue about semantics, don’t we?”
it struck me, for meself it is one of the main purposes of the ML, for
yeself it seems unnecessary, I guess we do not interpret the sentence in the
same way, and I assume that we do not do this on purpose.
I’ve always been bemused when someone says, “It’s just a question of
semantics” to cut off a discussion. Doesn’t semantics mean “meaning”
and if so, it seems to me that that’s more interesting to discuss
than, say, syntax.
Hopefully I got my point accross - which is funny because the point I want
to get accross (is this English BTW?)
Yes, except for the spelling of across.
But then evun nativ Englush speekers oftin mispel Englush werds!
is that is almost impossible to get
the point accross.
Amen!
Rick DeNatale
My blog on Ruby
http://talklikeaduck.denhaven2.com/