Re: Define animation...

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 8:13am-0500, Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxx>:


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In article <1188158294.202487.274290@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Chris Sobieniak <Sobieniak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The excuse given by more than one person of my acquaintance is that
English, being a living language, is constantly changing. The trouble
as I
see it is that while this much is true, this is an excuse used by more
than one person to excuse their own laziness. Like, go fig, dude...

It is. I hate those guys who think that way.

Me too.


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."


BASF: "We don't make a lot of the products you buy;
we make a lot of the products you buy better."

Heh, another abbrev.

Laters. =)

STan
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