From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Cc: jyavner@member.fsf.org, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Misunderstanding of the lambda calculus"
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:40:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoek2nmkfk.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85hd7jsboi.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:52:45 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> David, "archaic" _is_ a smear term in this context.
>
> Proper smear terms would be "obsolescent", "obsolete", "retarded".
Language is about communication. I think to anyone reasonably fluent in
english, it's pretty clear that "archaic" was used quite deliberately in
this case to mean "it sux0rz!1!" while avoiding explicitly
confrontational language. Since it handily achieved the goal, of
communicating contempt, it's hard to argue that it wasn't a "proper"
smear term...
-miles
--
"Suppose He doesn't give a shit? Suppose there is a God but He
just doesn't give a shit?" [George Carlin]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-01 10:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1F3FdP-0002xe-OW@monty-python.gnu.org>
2006-01-29 17:51 ` "Misunderstanding of the lambda calculus" Jonathan Yavner
2006-01-29 18:32 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-30 18:46 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-30 19:28 ` David Kastrup
2006-01-31 18:03 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-31 19:47 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-01-31 20:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-02-01 19:38 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-31 21:57 ` David Kastrup
2006-02-01 8:12 ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-02-01 8:52 ` David Kastrup
2006-02-01 10:40 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2006-02-01 15:01 ` Jonathan Yavner
2006-02-01 19:39 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-01-29 5:42 Chong Yidong
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