Re: the two questions
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:29:59 GMT
Message-ID: <Xe_2j.59897$cD.42277_at_pd7urf2no>
Brian Selzer wrote:
...
>
> Precision really isn't a bad thing. Perhaps you should find out what the
> words really mean before making an ass of yourself.
> ...
In fact, your examples are pointlessly vague, even wanton, as the
general lack of appreciation by people here shows. Taken to unnecessary
extremes, anything is bad. Over-precision by fatuous technocrats and
other mystics is a tremendous cost, complication and waste in modern
society.
I'll grant that over-precision is also possible by people who have no
axe to grind but are simply mis-guided as to what purpose they are
trying to achieve. Usually those types stop yelling about it after a
while.
Before the internet encouraged such vocabulary-on-steroids, these
pointless conversations were labelled "contemplating infinity" and