Re: Personal seals

jim_breen_at_idontreadhotmail.com
Date: 06/29/04 

Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:46:23 GMT

Apud shuji matsuda <shuji__matsuda@hotmail.com> (sci.lang.japan) hoc legimus:
>In article <kh3Ec.69461$sj4.24890@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
>jim_breen@idontreadhotmail.com wrote:
>:$BGO</$NJI(B? ($B%P%+$NJI(B) Can you give me a good definition? I have Googled
>:and mainly found pages talking about $B>.@t(B 8-)}

>This is coined by $BM\O7LR;J(B, an ex-professor of Tokyo Univ, Anatomy III, School of Medicine.
>Now he should be a professor at Kitasato, IIRC. The word describes the phenomena
>that perfect reasonings can fail if idiots cannot understand them. The wall
>is the metaphor of the idiocy that blocks the understanding. In other words,
>the old expression $BGO</$K$D$1$kLt$O$J$$(B says basically the same thing.

Thanks. It's worth an entry. (I see the point about $B>.@t(B now....) 

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Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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