Re: Define animation...


"Ken from Chicago" <kwicker1b_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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English IS a living language. Try going to Britain for comparison and
you'll see how much the English has grown here in America since travelling
across the Pond.

That said, language is for COMMUNICATION and that's a two-way deal of
transmitting ideas to others and getting feedback confirming that said
ideas were received. That typically requires a CONSENSUS as to HOW to
communicate.

When you break from the consensus view, then you have to choose either to
adapt your own communication style, change the consensus to match your
style or simply accept that your ideas might not be distributed as widely
as it might be otherwise.

Btw, part of that consensus is situational. The consensus for how to
communicate might differ at work, school, home, public, private, family,
friends, watching sports, playing games, even online, as you go from
forums about Battlestar Galactica, Buffy and vampires, Jack Bauer and
espionage, Superhero comics, tv, sf tv, sf writing, World of Warcraft,
Guild Wars, etc. The terminology, acronyms and abbreviations can radically
change.

Or worse the terms don't change but are DEFINED DIFFERENTLY. And that is
the real sticky wicket, when people are defining the same words with
different meanings. That, I've found, is the number one reason for
arguements. By clearing up definitional differences, you tend to clear up
the lines of communication.

-- Ken from Chicago

P.S. "America: We didn't make the English language; we made it better."


`I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don't -- till I tell
you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'

`But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.

`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it
means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'

`The question is,' said Alice, `whether you can make words mean so many
different things.'

`The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master -- that's
all.'

:^)

www.Shemakhan.com



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