Date: Mon, 27 May 2002 00:11:26 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: pgreen <polytarp@m-net.arbornet.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Language in danger: Language loss Message-ID: <3CF1DC1E.D59053CA@mindspring.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205261919370.49175-100000@m-net.arbornet.org> <3CF17486.F06F3E6A@mindspring.com> <20020527104558.B43610@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3CF1D271.321A6B21@mindspring.com> <20020527160337.H71831@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > >> Imagine you're driving down a crowded freeway and a car in front of > >> you suddenly stops. You have to avoid it. How do you do it? "Well, > >> if I veer to the left, I may hit the gravel on the side of the road, > >> if I veer to the right, I may hit the central reservation, but there's > >> not enough space between the lanes for me to get through, so maybe the > >> gravel's the least risk"? Of course not. Putting thoughts into > >> language is too slow for your own thoughts. > > > > Personally, I would avoid it by stopping, since I maintain at least > > 1.5 times my reaction time in distance between myself and the car in > > front of me. I rather imagine that stupid people smack into the car. > > There's a reason that, in the U.S., the driver who rear-ends another > > automatically gets the ticket. 8-). > > But you're missing the point. And the driver behind you won't miss > you. She did. She smacked into the car I avoided by changing lanes, thus avoiding me. Even though I threw on my brakes while changing lanes to give her a visual indication that she should hit her brakes, too. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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