• To: mc@x... (Mike Champion)
• Subject: Re: OT: Orwell on Language (was RE: A Two Day Workshop for Software
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:43:52 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <85FE8472RLJI1ZFCIHA9TOB0BAD0GF71.3c89671f@MChamp> from "Mike Champion" at Mar 08, 2002 08:36:31 PM

Mike Champion scripsit:

> Objective considerations [...]

Ivor Brown was of opinion that "success or failure" was too definite
and meaty, and he out-Orwelled Orwell as follows:

# Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion
# that optimum or inadequate performance in the trend of competitive
# activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity,
# but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be
# taken into account."

-- 
John Cowan <jcowan@r...>     http://www.reutershealth.com
I amar prestar aen, han mathon ne nen,    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
han mathon ne chae, a han noston ne 'wilith.  --Galadriel, _LOTR:FOTR_

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