Re: Hokay, I officially give up...

On Fri, 22 May 2009, Ron Jeffries wrote:

> On Friday, May 22, 2009, at 10:39:11 AM, Mathieu wrote:
>> Ok, so, for every context, no matter what scale of standards they already
>> use, you'd shift their standards so that, no matter what they achieve,
>> they'd judge it as "barely works"? No matter the improvements made, the
>> scale can be shifted so that whatever has been done still gets called
>> "barely works". What's the point?
> Since no one could likely have meant anything that stupid,

You are the one calling it stupid. I wish not to call it stupid, it is 
just what it is, period. If anything, to me, it was someone projecting his 
desire for tighter requirements, into his choice of words.

> I would urge you to think a bit about what the point might have actually 
> been.

How do you think I got to my conclusion? I thought a bit, then a bit more, 
and eventually, I got somewhere. I look for redefinitions of words, I look 
for how things can be written in other words, I look for any familiar 
patterns that may give be hints on redefinitions and rewriting. I know 
that it's easy to assume the meanings of words to be solid references, at 
the very same time that we do make those meanings float around.

So, why do you look like you believe that there isn't much thinking going 
in getting to the question "what's the point" in such a manner?

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