On 24 Aug, 01:00, Hugh Aguilar <hughaguila...@yahoo.com> wrote: > On Aug 21, 12:32 pm, Alex McDonald <b...@rivadpm.com> wrote: > > > "Scintilla" gets about 2,080,000 results on google; "blather" gets > > about 876,000 results. O Hugh, you pseudo-intellectual you! > > > > with gutter language such as > > > "turd" > > > About 5,910,000 results. It has a long history, even getting a mention > > in the Wyclif's 13th century bible. > > You looked up "blather" and "turd" on google *AND* you are not a > pseudo-intellectual??? That is funny! > > I don't consider myself to be a pseudo-intellectual. I don't have any > education however, so a pseudo-intellectual is the only kind of > intellectual that I could be.
I don't have any formal CS education, nor a degree in anything else. But that doesn't make me an anti-intellectual by instinct (the instinct would be jealousy, I guess), nor does it stop me from learning. Or using Google, something I'm sure you do too. We have a great degree of admiration and fondness for intellectuals in Europe; the French in particular hold them in very high regard. Perhaps disdain of learning and further education is peculiar to a certain section of American society, as the label "intellectual" (often, "liberal intellectual") appears to be used as a derogatory term. I have no idea what a pseudo-intellectual might be, but it's evident you mean it in much the same way. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
