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Uche Ogbuji scripsit:
> URIs are every bit as harmful as names. And names are indeed very harmful.
> Of course I bring a particular ethnic sensibility to the numen of names, but I
> think that even the Western philosophical canon bears out what less sophist
> cultures insist on more directly :-)
My ancestors were about as western as Europeans get, and they used
names to induce malefactors to commit suicide.
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But *names* can really mess me up.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan jcowan@reutershealth.com
Please leave your values | Check your assumptions. In fact,
at the front desk. | check your assumptions at the door.
--sign in Paris hotel | --Miles Vorkosigan
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