What is the purpose of writing a post? I you guys didn't understand what I
wrote above,
Are you ignorant? Are you stupid? Or am I a snob, whose purpose is to
obfuscate rather than to communicate?
Is it _your_ obligation to try to understand my Portuguese verbiage, or is
it _my_ obligation to use language that is conducive to getting my meaning
across to this group?
More to the point, is it _your_ obligation to make the effort to understand
Brett's stratospheric abstractions, or is it _his_ obligation to
communicate on a more concrete level, using words whose meanings this group
has agreed upon?
If a message is full of noise from the source, there is no way it can reach
the receiver as anything meaningful. As Wade said, Brett offers mandalas.
Or Rorschach inkblots. Or inelegant (imho) koans. Any meaning you may
perceive--if you're willing to spend hours in meditation--is merely the
effect of what you bring to it.
lena (founding member of the Anti-Obfuscation League)
-- Lena Rotenberg lrr@netkonnect.net