Fill in the Blank

[Edwin Pilobello]

The perfect word would make great ad copy, wouldn't it?  In the mean
time, I believe we've come up with a great collection for specific
tomes.  Surely there are more juxtapositions to explore.  For example, a
Public Broadcasting PSA reminded me of "curiosity".

Cheers,
Edwin


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-squeakland at squeakland.org
[mailto:owner-squeakland at squeakland.org] On Behalf Of John Steinmetz
Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 1:44 PM
To: squeakland at squeakland.org
Subject: RE: Fill in the Blank


"The music is not in the piano" works because a piano is a 
music-specific device. (It also works because it's obvious to almost 
everybody where the music must be if it's not in the piano.) The 
blank in the phrase about the computer can't be filled so easily 
because it is a nonspecific device, capable of simulating other 
devices of many kinds, and additionally capable of new activities 
still un- or under-developed.

So no single word will fill the blank in that computer phrase, unless 
it is a word of a different order.

	John