> We don't need "Fun With Dick and Jane" Whilst fully appreciating your usual humour, perhaps ironically I was using the word "exotic" very much in the sense that Mr. G. seems to prefer, although referring to other common usages as subliterate suggests one has a rather overly inclusive notion of what constitutes colloquial terminology. In a discussion in a technical forum (especially where many non-native speakers of the language used may be involved) the use of unusual and thus less well known words and expressions in place of more everyday but still efficacious word choice and phraseology (i.e., where this does not compromise the technical accuracy of what is being said) does not in any way aid clear communication and one can quite justifiably consider such words to be foreign interlopers (from the World of Literature?) in that context. Not of course that one needs to descend to Dick and Jane levels. Let's not appeal to extremes. But I think now 'nuff sed, to use a more truly subliterate turn of phrase.
I am just speaking for myself of course. -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Gesendet: Freitag, 27. Juli 2012 02:15 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet? In <CAE1XxDGmMk8nKK=xkjinenh0qjhxaytmb_wvxi2w4vus+an...@mail.gmail.com>, on 07/26/2012 at 01:58 PM, John Gilmore <jwgli...@gmail.com> said: >I also grow weary of complaints about my notionally 'exotic' >vocabulary. This term once had a precise meaning. (Signage annoucing >efforts at 'exotic plant control' in Hawaii's state and national parks >preserve it.) Its subliterate use has converted it into a vague >synonym for strange or non-standard. Strange as it may seem, I actually agree with you one that. We (TINW) don't need "Fun With Dick and Jane". -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
