Easy, now! Study of birds is ornithology. Orthography is spelling. Please
see additional wisecracks embedded below.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Ford <mikeford(a)socal.rr.com
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2000 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: !Re: Nuke Redmond!
>Though computers have relieved us of the burden of
learning proper
>orthography, it's well remembered that the spelling gives indication as
to
the meaning
only if it's correct.
What does the study of birds have to do with language? ;) How many sides
does an orthogon have anyway?
From the look of it I'd say it has jointed sides, however many that would
make.
The basic problem is that technologists often have no respect for
language,
or any other "soft" science. Hence the
creation of jargon, which is best
never considered "english", but it still gets used so tough.
Well, it's best to reserve the designation of language to what most of us
use. The English language has the facilities to allow us to express quite
precisely what we want or need to say. It seldom happens, though. I
remember mentioning a few weeks back that with the trend toward minimalism
in vocabulary, we'll be trying to interpret meaning from inflections on the
single monosyllabic grunt we'll be using in another 30 years or so.
Slew is a dandy term, anybody working with operational amplifiers knows it
refers to the rate of change of a signal, the slew rate.
Yes, and that's in teravolts per femtosecond, right?