tes@whuts.UUCP (03/02/87)
In article <4694@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes: > > to water as H20 and salt as Sodium Chloride... ^^^ H2O (sorry, could not resist) > purpose of language is to communicate (or have you forgotten that?) no, I just find the invention of jargon when the need is not there, namely, plenty of *accepted* terms exist, to be anti-communicative (is that a real word?). The creating and discarding of language by sub-cultures (Valley Girls, Surf bums, etc.) is a well documented phenomenon. I do understand it in the context of "professional communications". > > "100K+" sounds like a bit of jargon to me, is that in your dictionary? mea culpa > ...rebozo... > must be some idiomatic content to that but Webster isn't helping it was (is) a metaphor, look at a picture, or any number of grade-B westerns set in the SW United States. By way of another mea culpa, I really must constrain my right-brain activities to *.poems. That will avoid unnecessary angina and make a major cut in rebuttals by those who do not understand my "cleverness". > You sirrah, are a boor. Which brings me to the real point, I agree with those who feel that this discussion is inappropriate here. Follow-ups to sci.lang. I doubt that I have much more to contribute, but will be listening in on sci.lang. -- ----- Terry Sterkel -====---- AT&T Bell Laboratories --------- {clyde|harvard|allegra|ulysses|ihnp4}!whuts!tes ----- [opinions are obviously only my own]