Re: Borland, Diamondback and QC

From: Bob Dawson (bdawson_at_idtdna.com)
Date: 08/30/04

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    Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:56:48 -0500

    "Derek Davidson" wrote
    > that much effort into it, at least admit it instead of chastising
    > others for being unable to read your intentions.

    Language and communication are inherently a bit slippery, so the attempt to
    make a communication definitively specific and determinate (impossible to
    misinterpret) is ultimately self-defeating--it results in totally unreadable
    legalese (in law), and esoteric traditions of endless hermeneutic
    reinterpretation (literature and religion).

    The only thing impossible to misinterpret is the void, and only that on the
    grounds of credibility (all interpretations of nothingness are
    self-evidently misinterpretations because there is nothing to mean).

    The best one can hope for is to be reasonably clear to a neutral or better
    audience; it just isn't possible to write in a manner so clear and
    unambiguous that an unfriendly interpretor would not be able to twist one's
    meaning.

    Eric was not playing the part of a "neutral or better audience" audience, so
    I see no point in Nick trying to appease his distortions, and your
    injunction to try to write more clearly is plainly off the point.

    bobD

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