From: "Fred E.J. Linton" <fejlinton@usa.net>
To: <categories@mta.ca>
Subject: Re: Dualities arising via pairs of schizophrenic objects
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 10:06:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RUfgo-0002A6-5l@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
To redeploy some recent words of Tom Leinster, shingles is (as I know from
painful first-hand experience) "a serious and often frightening condition."
Yet I would not go so far as to insist that roofing shingles or
siding shingles be outfitted with some other name, or to urge
doctors or lawyers to refrain from speaking of "hanging out their
shingles" when they open their practices.
I think intelligent people can be trusted to understand even potentially
ambiguous words in a correct, mature, context-driven way.
Cheers, -- Fred Linton
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next reply other threads:[~2011-11-26 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-26 15:06 Fred E.J. Linton [this message]
2011-11-27 15:43 ` Todd Trimble
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-07 13:39 Valeria de Paiva
2011-12-02 15:59 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-12-04 14:25 ` Jean Benabou
2011-11-28 6:18 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-11-28 14:00 ` Robert Dawson
2011-11-26 7:39 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-11-27 15:25 ` Graham White
2011-11-28 17:04 ` Jocelyn Ireson-Paine
2011-11-24 16:06 Sebastian Kerkhoff
2011-11-24 20:33 ` Tom Leinster
2011-11-25 14:38 ` Robert Dawson
2011-11-26 16:07 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2011-11-25 4:10 ` Ross Street
2011-11-26 16:45 ` tholen
2011-11-28 20:12 ` Vaughan Pratt
2011-11-29 23:37 ` David Roberts
2011-12-07 5:48 ` Dusko Pavlovic
2011-12-07 13:58 ` Michael Barr
2011-12-07 17:58 ` Jocelyn Ireson-Paine
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