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RE: rss regularis(z)ation

• To: "John Cowan" <cowan@m...>
• Subject: RE: rss regularis(z)ation
• From: "Danny Ayers" <danny666@v...>
• Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 15:06:58 +0200
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <20030723124633.GP2811@m...>
• Reply-to: <danny666@v...>

> > No, me neither. I personally think that XML namespaces are the
> right choice
> > here, but the process is very much at fault if the decision
> isn't made in a
> > clearly consensual  way. (is consensual a word? - sounds smutty)
>
> It is a word, but semantically it is tied to "consent" rather than
> "consensus", which have become somewhat divergent in meaning.
> (Consensual sex is precisely sex between the consenting.)
> I think you want "the decision isn't arrived at by consensus."

Thanks John. The "-sensual" confused me a little, but it must have been
"consensual sex" I had in mind. Which segues unnaturally into the
pronunciation of RSS...

Cheers,
Danny.

http://dannyayers.com/misc/bits/arse.wav

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