Re: META: Subject line profanity considered [really dumb]

From: Charles Hixson (charleshixsn@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Jan 04 2002 - 15:41:23 MST


Dossy wrote:

> On 2002.01.04, Charles Hixson <charleshixsn@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>...
> The fact that you provided what the phrase meant to you
> in a way that didn't use the phrase itself (cyclical
> definitions are fairly valueless), shows that it wasn't
> necessary to use the phrase itself to get the same idea
> across.
>
> Otherwise, you would have just sat dumbfounded and said
> "you know, there's really no other way of saying it,
> other than 'fuck the will of the people' ..."
>
> -- Dossy
>
>

Did you notice how much longer my paraphrases were? And they
were still only approximately equivalent.

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