From owner-freebsd-chat Mon May 27 0:12: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0FCE37B406; Mon, 27 May 2002 00:11:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0387.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.132] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17CEfd-0003g9-00; Mon, 27 May 2002 00:11:58 -0700 Message-ID: <3CF1DC1E.D59053CA@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:11:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: pgreen , Rahul Siddharthan , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss References: <3CF17486.F06F3E6A@mindspring.com> <20020527104558.B43610@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CF1D271.321A6B21@mindspring.com> <20020527160337.H71831@wantadilla.lemis.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> Imagine you're driving down a crowded freeway and a car in front of > >> you suddenly stops. You have to avoid it. How do you do it? "Well, > >> if I veer to the left, I may hit the gravel on the side of the road, > >> if I veer to the right, I may hit the central reservation, but there's > >> not enough space between the lanes for me to get through, so maybe the > >> gravel's the least risk"? Of course not. Putting thoughts into > >> language is too slow for your own thoughts. > > > > Personally, I would avoid it by stopping, since I maintain at least > > 1.5 times my reaction time in distance between myself and the car in > > front of me. I rather imagine that stupid people smack into the car. > > There's a reason that, in the U.S., the driver who rear-ends another > > automatically gets the ticket. 8-). > > But you're missing the point. And the driver behind you won't miss > you. She did. She smacked into the car I avoided by changing lanes, thus avoiding me. Even though I threw on my brakes while changing lanes to give her a visual indication that she should hit her brakes, too. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message