Subject: Re: Deep copy in lisp: how? From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 2000/04/13 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3164649925932789@naggum.no> * Tim Moore <moore@herschel.bricoworks.com> | Pigs are highly intelligent. pardon me for elaborating on a saying. speaking of which, this must be a regional thing -- in some parts of the English-speaking world, people tend to use idioms almost constantly, but do not reflect on them at all, which makes them into a mere set of ersatz vocabulary, while in other parts of the English-speaking world, puns and elaborations and mixing and matching idioms and expressions to travel between many layers of meaning is considered natural. I tend to be puzzled when I meet people who don't reflect on their language, because it's hard to tell which part of the many meanings they got and which they completely missed out on. | In any event, who cares if the recipient isn't receptive? you do, when you take the role of a bystander and raise the discussion to a meta-level. others do, when they are in middle of the discussion that started it all. many find it very annoying to see recurring dimwits fail to get over a personal hangup or their desperately trying to recover something they are the only ones to remember they lost. newsgroup volume is a measure of discontent. #:Erik