Iconoclast? I'm thinking Iconoblast. <g> Good point about the angle of slope on
the whole learning, ah, curve. I fear I may have misused that one a time or two
myself. Well, smack my grandma!
I've delved a bit into Andrew's fallacy e-book. He really is a curmudgeon, but
he's nicer to his readers than he is to us. <g>
--Bob
On May 27, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Piers Hemy wrote:
> Couldn't agree with you more about question-beggars, Bob. You may wish to
> impart to EW that for communication to be effective, it must be mutually
> understood (by speaker and spoken-to) to mean the same thing. You can't be
> sure of that being the case if you use "beg the question" in that way - 'cos
> you, me, Andrew and Chris will misunderstand. Be sure, we *will*
> misunderstand, on a point of principle!
>
> Another couple for you to mull over:
>
> Every "easily recognised" image nowadays seems to be "iconic". I think we
> need to set an iconoclast on that one.
>
> And every moderately difficult task is described as having "a steep learning
> curve" which is completely the opposite and converse (yes, both of those,
> together and at the same time) of the true meaning - that in the given
> occupation one learns a great deal very quickly. Difficulty or ease is
> beside the point!
>
> Hmm, this is much more satisfying than mere apostrophes!
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