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RE: Being "precise" vs being "human"

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• Subject: RE: Being "precise" vs being "human"
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: 23 Jan 2002 21:32:50 -0500
• In-reply-to: <0781B563AC0DD611A21900508B62B5BC0D6D84@e...>
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I just hope my selection and modification processes add some value.  It
figures that most of my code is filters or filter support.  (I really
did generate content for a few years...)

Given the subject line, I hope I'm still "human" despite my filtering.

On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 19:40, Jeff Lowery wrote:
> 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...>
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> > 
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