Ken Tilton wrote: > > > Boris Borcic wrote: >> Ken Tilton wrote: >> >>> "Now if you are like most people, you think that means X. It does not." >> >> >> As far as natural language and understanding are concerned, "to mean" >> means conformity to what most people understand, Humpty Dumpties >> notwithstanding. > > Nonsense.
:) > You are confusing that quality of natural language with most > people's quality of being sloppy readers, or in your case, a sloppy > thinker. Misapplying an analogy is not a question of usage -- when I > said spreadsheet and they thought of spreadsheets, so far so good, > right? No, as Adam Jones pointed out. Like Bush speaking of "crUSAde" after 9/11. > -- it just sloppiness and laziness. > > I do it, too, all the time. :) Right. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
