"Mike Schilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "Jürgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Xah Lee wrote: > >> Jargons of Info Tech industry > >> > >> (A Love of Jargons) > >> > >> Xah Lee, 2002 Feb > >> > >> People in the computing field like to spur the use of spurious > >> jargons. The less educated they are, the more they like extraneous > > [...] > > > > Just for the records at Google et.al. in case someone stumbles across > > Xah's > > masterpieces in the future: > > Xah is very well known as the resident troll in many NGs and his > > 'contributions' are less then useless. > > He sent a lovely one to some of the language groups the other day, > explaining why Jonathan Swift was a poor writer.
That's remarkable, considering he doesn't realize "jargon" is a collective noun. Joe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
