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Simon's just a pass-through filter? > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@r...] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:06 PM > To: Steven R. Newcomb > Cc: Simon St.Laurent; Clark C . Evans; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Being "precise" vs being "human" > > > Steven R. Newcomb wrote: > > > > I'm puzzled by Simon's announced intention to avoid > > confronting the nasty little problem of actually > > interchanging knowledge, and to focus instead on purely > > lexical issues. If we don't want to communicate, > > what's the point of linguistics? > > Nothing odd about that. Communication is frequently > mediated by an editor, and that's what Simon in fact is. > > -- > Not to perambulate || John Cowan > <jcowan@r...> > the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com > during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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