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- From: andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU (Avery Andrews)
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- Subject: language
- Message-ID: <9211190037.AA14405@fac.anu.edu.au>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 16:37:06 GMT
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- [Avery Andrews 921119.1136]
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- (Bill Powers (921118.0730))
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- This helps a lot. I think people have to be very careful about
- terminology here, since I doubt that I'm the only person who is
- likely to react this way. `image' is a pretty controversial word
- these days. I think it would be best to reserve it for things like
- bitmaps, & find some other terminology for the higher-level perceptual
- signals.
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- (Martin Taylor (assorted postings))
- presumably my perception of a social inhibition against checking for
- comprehension comes from spending most of my time in circumstances
- (e.g. Academia) where comprehension actually doesn't matter very much,
- and other values such as social cohesion prevail (e.g. it isn't helpful
- to make people think that you think that they're so dumb that they can't
- be expected to understand what you're saying).
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- Perhaps people whose perspective was formed in,say, naval aviation
- would have a different view of things (choosing that because, from what
- I've read about it, it seems to be the most complicated and dangerous
- thing that any group of people do on a routine basis).
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- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
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