<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Thanks Spike<br><br>I am something of a word snob (well, actually all-around snob sans sneering) and dislike the dumbing down by the plebes. It's just so lazy. I had a kid at the math school named Sebastian and he DID NOT have a nickname or shortening (maybe some lard, though). I was just amazed.<br>
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(11,83,148)">Do you (plural) think that it will be possible in the not near but not far future to say to a computer "I want you to write and execute a program to do xyz." ?? bill w<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 11:17 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 01, 2014 8:41 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] language<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><div class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in">
<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#0b5394">Been down - tornadoes. Everything OK</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:red">Damn the tornadoes, full speed ahead!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Glad to hear all are well BillW.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in">
<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#0b5394"><br><br>What if people decided not to degrade the language and add to it only by vote? The we could quit nicknaming and acronyming etc</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#1f497d">…</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#0b5394"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">That’s kinda what we do. Terms are introduced, sometimes the proles take them and use them, sometimes not. That process is analogous to voting on introducing new terms for a vote.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#0b5394">What if people are so genetically constructed that they can do any job and everyone rotates jobs?<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">This wouldn’t require genetically constructing people, it requires constructing the jobs. This is what is happening too: jobs are not so much dumbed down (actually they are, but that’s another discussion) as jobs are generalized to match the most common skills. I have seen the aerospace industry evolve to where it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to do them. For most of those remaining jobs, it doesn’t really even take an engineer. I have seen some of the most successful ones come in with degrees in accounting. I am not kidding.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>
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