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Re: CHAT: Zed (was: CHAT: "have a nice day")

From:Padraic Brown <pbrown@...>
Date:Wednesday, March 15, 2000, 17:17
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Keolah Kedaire wrote:

>*chuckle* I know what you mean. For the most part, I'm content knowing >the difference between a noun and a verb, and occasionally being able to >follow what their talking about. I tend to describe what something does >then let someone else come up with a long word for it. But IMO that's how >it should be, that is, described after it is already in place, rather than >letting preconcieved notions of what long words colour it.. (Did that even >make any sense?)
Perfect sense! But you don't have to let the long words colour your langs. They're just convenient tags for naming things, really. Padraic.
> >--Keolah the Seeker-- >"When men sprout tails, and pigs grow wings and fly." >