From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject:	[OT] Nuances of Language
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 07:51:54 -0600

Nexx wrote:
/
/ ----------
/ > From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
/
/ > But Shadowrun would still be
/ > Shadowrun if it didn't have magic, it would just be different.
/
/ Adam, I respect your work on this list greatly, but that has got to be
/ the most moronic phrase in the entire English Language, and likely quite a
/ few others. X would still be X if it didn't have Y, it would just be
/ different.

But isn't language used to symbolically represent a world that's
perceived abstractly?

And if you'll look closely the top of an X looks like the top of a
Y. So a Y is a different looking X, and vice versa. So from one
viewpoint, "X would still be X if it didn't have Y, it would just be
different." works.

Just because your perspective is different then Adam's doesn't make
Adam's perspective any less significant.

Are we having fun yet :)

-David
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