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   Re: [xml-dev] Being "precise" vs being "human"

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Steven R. Newcomb wrote:


> I'm puzzled by Simon's announced intention to avoid
> confronting the nasty little problem of actually
> interchanging knowledge, and to focus instead on purely
> lexical issues.  If we don't want to communicate,
> what's the point of linguistics?

Nothing odd about that.  Communication is frequently
mediated by an editor, and that's what Simon in fact is.

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