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Simon's just a pass-through filter?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 4:06 PM
> To: Steven R. Newcomb
> Cc: Simon St.Laurent; Clark C . Evans; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Being "precise" vs being "human"
>
>
> 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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