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Enough of these polysyllabic sesquipedalianisms, already Bob On 6 Jun 2006, at 19:51, Bullard, Claude L ((Len)) wrote: > It's ok. I won't pay the Stamp Tax either. > > Rashomon is the quintessential 'subjective' over 'objective' point of > view where even the narrator can't be trusted. One can say that the > point of XML is to enable subjective systems with objective > implementations. XML enables the lumpiness of scalar domains to be > dynamically smoothed just as official histories smooth over the > lumpiness of human personalities interacting in real time events. > Subjectivity like relativism admits that objective truth is not simply > expensive to have, it is unstable. Sort of a topological K-theory of > markup and real-time. > > My writing is much easier to understand than I am in person. > > len > > > From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:rjelliffe@a...] > > Michael Kay said: >>> There are Rashomonic viewpoints >> >> Heh, some of us don't have English as our first language, could you >> stick to words found in www.dictionary.com please? > > Finally Len writes something I understand, and you want discourage > him! > :-) > > "Rashomon" repeats the same violent story from different > viewpoints, and > regularly makes it into the top 100 in "best film of all time" > lists, eg > http://www.filmsite.org/alist.html > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> >
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