Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 20:57:54 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: nick.hibma@jrc.it Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: internationalization Message-ID: <199806122057.NAA17113@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980612193741.19080a-100000@elect8> from "Nick Hibma" at Jun 12, 98 08:08:30 pm
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[ ... Redirected to -chat ... ] > > Discussions of highly technical issues require *precise* language. > > This is why all highly technical fields develop their own jargon. > > Highly technical, as in: ilk, bigotry, premise? :-) Nope, that was an > excursion into the land of poetry and was definitely not within the > jargon of the topic being discussed. "Premise" has specific connotations in formal logic. I would have a hard time finding a word adequate to replace "bigotry" or "bigot", and the bias on group membership/non-membership it was intended to imply. The use of the word "ilk" is much less formal, but I'm not the one who used that particular word. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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