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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: More advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.174051.29001@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <8230@lib.tmc.edu> <1992Dec29.181546.1151@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec30.181522.5719@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec31.041533.3989@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 17:40:51 GMT
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- In <1992Dec31.041533.3989@microsoft.com> philipla@microsoft.com (Phil Lafornara) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec30.181522.5719@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >>In <1992Dec29.181546.1151@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>
- >>> So we're agreed that using the word "all" is a lie, right? So
- >>> *pull the word*.
- >>
- >>Yes, it's a 'lie' in the same sense that any usage of the words 'all',
- >>'every', and 'always' is a 'lie'. Shall we delete them from the
- >>language, or shall we instead assume that people are going to
- >>understand the language as it is typically used?
-
- > "All", "Every", and "Always" have perfectly legitimate uses.
- >Advertising software is rarely one of them.
-
- The only time you can 'correctly' use those words is if you formulate
- a tautology, as in "all black dogs are black".
-
- >>Hell, MS-DOS won't run all does programs. MS-Windows certainly won't
- >>run all Windows programs (OSWin runs more of them than MS-Windows
- >>does). Let's force them to change the name of the products, since
- >>using those names implies that they will run those programs AND THEY
- >>DON'T.
-
- > Fred, if you can show me an MS-DOS ad that says that it
- >runs "all DOS programs", or a Windows ad that says it "runs all
- >Windows programs", then I'll lobby to have the company change
- >it. I have never seen such an ad - I don't honestly believe
- >that one exists.
-
- Who said anything about them being advertised that way? The very name
- IMPLIES that MS-DOS will run MS-DOS programs. It SOUNDS tautological,
- but it turns out that all MS-DOS programs won't run on the current
- version of MS-DOS. Ditto for Windows, only moreso. If you don't
- think the implication is there, Phil, you haven't read very many
- Windows ads.
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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