On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 11:46:52AM +0200, Philippe Vaucher wrote:
> > In *your* frame of reference, perhaps. Not in mine, by a far shot.
> > And I think /that/ is one of the shortcomings of this discussion.
> >
> > As long as we don't accept all that there are different approaches
> > and give up on the "mine's better (or 'more modern' or 'more Lispy'
> > or whatnot) than yours" the discussion is bound to go in circles
> > (at best) or to hurt feelings (at worst).
> 
> For the record I think I've reach that point since a while now.

That's my feeling, too, and I'm very thankful to you for that.

I just follow this thread and try to point out those little
"linguistic antipatterns" I spot. Based on my past experience,
those can be very detrimental to otherwise strong communities
without any bad intentions.

BTW, I know this can happen to me, too: thus I'm happy whenever
someone tells me.

> I'll happily continue to explain my way of thinking but I'm not
> pushing anymore for mass aliases/renames, this is a dead end.

Yes, and thanks for this. That's definitely the more exciting
way :-)

Cheers
-- t