On 20/02/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to start marking my subjective comments with a star, so it's > clear what is emperically verifiable, and what is not.
An ascii star? You do realize that email is a text medium, no? > It's a bad sign. If you aren't keeping your thoughts to yourself, and > thrashing about the world for a peer, a social network, a support > group, or a community, then you missed the day in grammar school when > they were handing out smiles. But they're not handing them out > anymore. You talk in analogies. I don't understand them. I do not know Spanish, and maybe if I knew both Spanish and your local customs, I would understand your analogies. But as a Hebrew-speaking middle easterner, I don't. > Even on my emperical claims, I'm wrong 90% of the time. On the > subjective ones, I'm not only wrong that much, but no one else want to > hear, or even can verify them. Smell's fine to me. I don't have time for 10% right. I cannot go verify everything that you think out loud because 10% might be true. No matter how it smells to you. > Emotions are prejudiced; and even in my own concrete thoughts, I will > misidentify myself with another, and others with me. When I say "I", > I mean "you." I believe that text was reworded for the final draft of "Through the Looking Glass". > French and Spanish have impersonal pronouns: "on" and "se", > respectively. In English, they often come out as, "we", "they", and > "you" a lot, on occasion a "one", and sometimes, even, I. In Hebrew, we have 8 different words for "you". That does not affect my English communications, however. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
