Re: TECH (aargh) More new computer woes

>Well, point taken.  I shouldn't have used the g....word.  Apologies.
Hmm, you just helped with yet another personal realization. Thanks. For
myself, I mentally restrict the word _gibberish_ to those instances which
carry no intelligence at all for me.

E.g. I cannot simulatenously listen on a phone and listen to someone beside
me trying to talk - my brain melanges it all together so that what I what I
perceive then is true gibberish.

>If it's any comfort, there's many a page of generative phonological
>rules in Chomsky & Halle Sound Pattern of English that I have called,
>and still would call, gibberish (and there is I think a certain
>resemblance between such rules and computer code-- ordering,
>precision, abbreviatory conventions etc.)
LOL. Look at some PERL code, especially parsing strings. and you'll be even
more convinced of the similarity.

>-----------------------------------------
>Stone G. wrote--
>  The allusion I was making
> > was that all specialized fields have specialized jargon and (in the
>cases
>of
> > linguistics and programming) specilaized symbology, all which is not
> > gibberish but understandable given time and effort.

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