Sebastian, excellent description of the costs of ambiguity in our
language, which can be even higher in a low-bandwidth mailing list.

In working with people from around the globe it can happen a lot, and
I don't mind "going meta" on someone like you just did and asking for
clarification when it occurs on something meaningful.  We should all
pay attention to our words and their possible alternate
interpretations.

Cheers.

On 5/23/07, Sebastian Sastre <ssastre at seaswork.com> wrote:
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> > >are all the gaps they haven't covered yet of useful things
> > that can be
> > >done with a Squeak system. So let's forget conformism.
> >
> > I think you misunderstand me (I'm not always clear).  I meant
> > that I know of at least two people already doing it, so it
> > seems reasonable that more people would want to as well.
> >
> JJ,
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>         It's like:
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> -I have friend with a pop eye named John
> -Really? And how it's named he's other eye?
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>         It's called 'syntactic ambiguity'. It's a problem that our natural
> (informal) language has (in all languages), so it's constantly is giving us
> some workload in pre or post desambiguations of things that we say/write.
>
> All te best,
>
> Sebastian
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