Re: RE: RE: [Edu-sig] Computer Languages via Immersion Experiences
Overexposure to mercury must have the effect of making one's common sense grotesquely large.
Freakish common sense. Something one learns to live with, evenutally.> Art
I get that you have supreme faith in your own judgments.
As it happens I don't consider myself to being making a judgment. I am reporting a disturbance to my sensibilities. And explaining it as best I can. One's sensiblities are not something one has faith in, or does not have faith in. One has an experience, an emotion. But yes, I have respect for those emotions when I consider then to be coming from a concerned place. And worthy of reportage. Art
As it happens I don't consider myself to being making a judgment.
You: "Perhaps irrevocably **prejudiced** by Mr. Kay's decision to wittingly or unwittingly assist Disney in their effort to become a force in education for dollars, I for one feel little affinity with the Squeak community." [italics added] http://mail.python.org/pipermail/edu-sig/2004-October/003991.html Dictionary: prej.u.dice ( P ) Pronunciation Key (prj-ds) n. 1. 1. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts. 2. A preconceived preference or idea. 2. The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions. See Synonyms at predilection. 3. Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, or religion. 4. Detriment or injury caused to a person by the preconceived, unfavorable conviction of another or others. http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=prejudiced&r=67 Me: I'd say the definition fits. Definitely adverse judgment is involved, by your own earlier admission. Nice try though. Kirby
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