Re: OT-ish: txt - Could it replace Standard Written English?
| From: | Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 6, 2003, 19:40 |
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En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:
>
> IMAO, creativity does not come from sloppiness. True creativity is not
> hindered by discipline; rather, discipline enables it to develop and
> flourish.
>
Exactly. Ask any artist, and you'll see that however chaotic their life may be,
their art itself is strictly conducted, if according to rules they didn't
consciously make. Discipline is not about forcing rules onto people. It's about
teaching people to understand the reason why rules can be necessary and to make
their own.
>
> Or like not watering a plant, since that would impede its ability to
> create new ways of growing. You'll kill off everything except the
> cactuses... which perhaps explains why a lot of people are such
> pricks
> nowadays.
>
This metaphor looks extremely valid to me :) .
>
> "And so you have thirteen tens,
> And you take away seven,
> And that leaves five...
>
> "Well, six actually.
> But ... the idea is the important thing."
>
I'm a grader in Physics myself, so I know what it is. If the method is right,
we're not gonna blame the student for making a mistake in the final
calculation, giving a result slightly off (unless it was easy to recognise the
mistake, as those tens of people who don't mind objects to fly at 10 times the
speed of light ;))) ). But in my experience, those cases are *rare*. In 95% of
the cases, a bad result comes from a bad method. So this idea that the method
is more important than the result is true, but it really applies to only very
few cases.
>
> That explains a lot of the passionate pleadings for employment which
> gets
> passed around as resumes these days. Pleeze hair me, I tipe goot, I
> now
> hte inernet two.
>
LOL.
> --
> Exaggerate?! I have never, *ever* exaggerated in my whole entire life,
> not
> even 0.000001 times!
>
Your little Perl program is becoming really spooky! It's so often relevant!! :)
Christophe.
http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr
Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.
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