Subject: Re: PART TWO: winning industrial-use of lisp: Re: Norvig's latest paper on Lis From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 15:21:19 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3233661679249005@naggum.net> * Erik Naggum > There is some record of illiterate use of "they" in this function, but that > usage lost grounds a _really_ long time ago. * Dvd Avins | No, it was declared illeterate by people who weren't in the habit of using | it, and therfore lost usage in _written_ English. Despite the efforts of | countless schoolmarms it has remained common in spoken English. Since it | serves a useful function in speach, I see nothing wrong with its revival in | written English. The referent for "this function" is _singular_ third-person pronoun. That would be the example I actually gave which should have let people GROW A FUCKING CLUE about what I meant. Sheesh. I don't mind people arresting me for mistakes I make, but I really do get seriously bothered by psychotic freaks who arrest for mistakes I have _not_ made, people whose emotional state is so warped that they no longer see what I write, but respond instead to their own prejudices and emotions and what they _think_ was there because their underutilized brains have no space for the sensory input that flies against their preconcocted beliefs. ARGH! Goddamn illiterates who cannot even read their _own_ language when used correctly. -- Guide to non-spammers: If you want to send me a business proposal, please be specific and do not put "business proposal" in the Subject header. If it is urgent, do not use the word "urgent". If you need an immediate answer, give me a reason, do not shout "for your immediate attention". Thank you.