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Re: [O] [PATCH 0/5] loop over headlines in active region


From: Štěpán Němec
Subject: Re: [O] [PATCH 0/5] loop over headlines in active region
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:26:31 +0200
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On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:06:26 +0200
David Maus wrote:

> At Wed, 07 Sep 2011 21:34:41 +0200,
> Štěpán Němec wrote:

>> So your "what stop me to implement a macro" argument is bogus, isn't it?
>> I can't really comment on whether using a macro or not is the right
>> thing here, but it seems to me you shouldn't base the decision on an
>> invalid argument (IOW, from the fact that you even felt the need to
>> explain why you didn't use a macro to begin with, it would appear to be
>> the case that you would have preferred the macro way).
>
> "One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand
> about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the
> very very obvious, as in /It's a nice day/, or /You're very tall/, or
> /Oh dear you seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you all
> right?/ At first Ford had formed a theory to account for this strange
> behavior. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he
> thought, their mouths probably seize up.
>
> After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this
> theory in favor of a new one. If they don't keep on exercising their
> lips, he thought, their brains start working. After a while he
> abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided
> he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained
> desperately worried about the terrible number of things they didn't
> know about."
>
>   Douglas Adams, The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy

In your "enlightened" style, that would be

“曰:‘四境之內不治則如之何?’王顧左右而言他。” 《孟子·梁惠王下》

Still, I'd rather we stuck to the point and expressed ourselves in a way
that doesn't imply the other side is either an idiot or a telepathist
(although I'd argue that in the currrent context, my quotation is much
clearer than yours).

-- 
Štěpán



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