From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2006-09-23T03:19:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Ducktator - A Duck Type Validator

On 9/22/06, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:

> No I have to say that I find this a very interesting and didactic thread,
> look e.g. at your statement
> "Boy, we really love to argue about semantics, don't we?"
> it struck me, for meself it is one of the main purposes of the ML, for
> yeself it seems unnecessary, I guess we do not interpret the sentence in the
> same way, and I assume that we do not do this on purpose.

I've always been bemused when someone says, "It's just a question of
semantics" to cut off a discussion.  Doesn't semantics mean "meaning"
and if so, it seems to me that that's more interesting to discuss
than, say, syntax.

> Hopefully I got my point accross - which is funny because the point I want
> to get accross (is this English BTW?)

Yes, except for the spelling of across.

But then evun nativ Englush speekers oftin mispel Englush werds! <G>

>is that is almost impossible to get
> the point accross.

Amen!
-- 
Rick DeNatale

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