Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: mdua border changes
Date: Jan 20, 2002 @ 21:51
Author: m donner ("m donner" <maxivan82@...>)
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>From: "ps1966nl" <smaardijkhahaha
>michael donner wrote:
>(...)logic & sense dictate that things be named logically & sensibly
>that is in this case at least named for how they are treated as you
>say or how they function i would add hence only quasi & not pene
>seems to me logical & sensible since quasi actually means fully as if
>but pene means only almost or nearly (...)
>
>I couldn't have put it more clearly than you have.
>
>(...)it doesnt matter that the pene words are illogical & senseless
>so long as we all understand & agree what we are doing & what we are
>actually saying & meaning by them even as i for one dont understand
>but i am not much into treatment & function anyway so dont mind me
>i will just hang in here (...)
>
>Now this is not even false modesty. The _function_ of words is
>_understanding_, isn't it???