Dakota Jack wrote:
That's swell, from an academic point of view, but the fact is that people mean different things with the same words. Sometimes hugely different, sometimes only a subtle internal difference brought forth by their physiology, upbringing, etc. Take the word "life," for instance, and enjoy.According to the linguists, the "beauty" of language is just the opposite, viz. its public nature, so that private meanings are not only allowed, they categorically make no sense.
This has been the rock-hard basis for modern linguistic analysis for as long as the Sun has risen.
Er...
And if two people use the same word in two different ways then it means two different things to two different people, and this happens more than I prefer.Technical terms can have technical definitions, but normal words in normal contexts, including scientific and technical contexts, must have the meaning given to them in use by their users. That is why I talked about how the word is used, rather than about how we can mean anything we want.
All _I_ said was that HTML isn't rendered until it's drawn on the screen, but a view, perhaps, could be rendered to HTML, which in turn is rendered by the browser. Which uses two different meanings of "render," which is fine, and I already said that I can live with the term used this way, albeit grudgingly. _I_ still think the view _generates_ HTML.
Interestingly, I was just thinking about this, and if the view was generating PostScript, I might actually use "rendered," even though PostScript is just Forth (almost my favorite language, next to Lisp-y things). Isn't that interesting? See? I even contradict my _own_ meaning of "render," and I'm okay with that (for now; I may have to think about this and normalize my use of the word one way or the other).
Perhaps my views on linguistics were colored a bit too much by Roger Schank, I dunno... working near him rubs off on you whether you like it or not--but the moniker L'enfant Terrible of Linguistics wasn't bestowed upon him lightly :D
Dave "Doesn't like going back and forth about nothing as much as you do" Newton
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