Re: Mitate ( )?

From: Michael Cash (mikecash_at_buggerallspammers.com)
Date: 10/23/04 

Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 00:24:20 +0900

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 08:28:14 -0500, "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com>
brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:

>Michael Cash wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:48:37 -0500, "John W." <worthj1970@yahoo.com>
>> brought down from the Mount tablets inscribed:
>>
>>
>>>Paul Blay wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>My contention is that is one heck of a clumsy sentence.
>>>
>>>It's not a sentence.
>>>
>>>
>>>>My other contention is that "particularly if the input is exactly as it
>>>>appears on the Web page (and in all other texts)" doesn't appear to make
>>>>any sense.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Why? If it's purpose isn't to translate words as the appear, then what?
>>>If I knew where one word stopped and another started I'd have put it in
>>>that way; but I didn't.
>>
>>
>> That's usually an indication that the material one is attempting to
>> decode with a dictionary is just a bit beyond the level of what one
>> should be attempting to read.
>>
>Do you think people shouldn't read anything harder than what they
>already know? The original confusion is that I knew it was a place, but
>the_lot translated it as a name.

There's reading things harder than what you know, and there's reading
things harder than what you know. You know?

This is part of the reason I don't use dictionaries when reading. I
prefer an end result of continued ignorance instead of increased
confusion. 

--
Michael Cash
"I am sorry, Mr. Cash, but we are unable to accept your rap *** in lieu of
a high school transcript."
				Dr. Howard Sprague
				Dean of Admissions
				Mount Pilot College
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