Re: Conlang Flag: Voting

--- Amanda Babcock <ababcock@...> wrote:

> > Anyone who is voting would have already looked up
> the flags (at
> > conlangflag.htm) where they are fully explained.
>
> I wasn't planning to, actually.  I've been ignoring
> all that and just
> waiting for the vote, as I assumed I'd have all the
> info I needed on
> the voting page.  Maybe a link from the voting page
> to the flag
> explanation page would serve both needs?
>
Thank you, kind soul. I feel less alone in this world
of user-unfriendly brutes :-)

I had made the same proposal and Adrian Morgan replied
he would do something.

He actually wrote:
-----
I'll link from the explanations page <conlangflag.htm>
to the voting
page, but I really do think it's silly to do it the
other way around.
The thing about symbols is that they stick in your
mind. If a symbol
does *not* stick in your mind then that symbol has
**FAILED**. So why
would you vote in favour of it? It's as simple as
that.
-----

The answer is obvious: before you can make a symbol
stick in your mind, you have to study it, with its
explanations, at least for a little while. I guess
nobody in the world, just looking to any of these
flags without having any comments at hand, could even
recognize that this is a symbol for Conlang Community.

- So what ? will be the answer. All explanations are
on conlangflag.htm. What more do you want ?

- Very simple. I want the information the moment I
need it, namely, in that case, the moment I'll have to
make a choice. Not at another place, not on another
day. Just hic et nunc. And I don't want to remember
the address of the something conlang something flag, I
just want a button, or a link, to click on. Because I
think my poor head is already overloaded enough with
needless information.

- Oh, so you're a darned lazy guy, aren't you ? You
don't want to learn or remember anything, do you ?

- Oh yes I am lazy, and I'm also pragmatic. I want to
choose the information I decide to learn by heart,
because I find it's vital, and discard the rest of it.
Did you ever have to do an intervention on a car, a
washing machine, a videotape recorder, a watch, when
you haven't the manual at hand ? How did you like the
experience ? The manual exists, it explains you how to
do it (in case it's not written in Finnish), only you
don't know where the manual is. May the one who never
experienced this throw the first stone at me ! (Of
course, some will say that they never need any manual
to fix anything on any machine or program. Shall we
believe them ?)

To get this into people's minds will take some more
decades, but I believe we will succeed one day.

See for ex Oracle's attitude:
- All our doc will be written in English, and only in
English. If you don't like it so, just don't buy
Oracle.

See Perl conceptor's attitude (Larry, ehm, forgot his
name):
- It is so because I decided it would be so, dot. It
might bring you extra difficulties, but that's not my
problem. I understand myself, that's important. Just
take it or leave it.

(sigh)










=====
Philippe Caquant


Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intellegor illis (Ovidius).

Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo (Horatius).

Interdum stultus opportune loquitur (Henry Fielding).

Scire leges non hoc est verba earum tenere, sed vim ac potestatem (Somebody).

Melius est ut scandalum oriatur, quam ut veritas relinquatur (Somebody else).

Ceterum censeo *vi* esse oblitterandum (Me).


		
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