Cobol - Re: Authorities

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Re: Authorities

Howard Brazee

2005-08-10, 4:59 pm

On 10-Aug-2005, "Chuck Stevens" <charles.stevens@unisys.com> wrote:

> So, I would argue, is ensuring that we don't use terms "idiopathically"
> (taken in its non-pejorative current dictionary sense, rather than its
> etymological one), particularly for terms that others might find pejorative!

Still, changing "this is stupid" to "I think this is stupid" does not change
what we think the word means. Also, nobody reading that post would believe that
when you said "this is stupid", you found some objective measure that we all
agree upon to determine this, and thus was something greater than your opinion.
In fact, telling you to add "I believe" is implying strongly that they know
better.

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