http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/10/when-language-goes-on-holiday.html Thinking the unthinkable, pondering the imponderable, effing the ineffable and scruting the inscrutable Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:56:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/10/when-language-goes-on-holiday.html#comment-2647 Once More unto the Breach Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:08:53 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/10/when-language-goes-on-holiday.html#comment-2647 [...] Microsoft on standards and choice, a long-time confusion of terms that I had previously called a language game. Walli points out: …Standards happen when a technology space matures to the point that [...] [...] Microsoft on standards and choice, a long-time confusion of terms that I had previously called a language game. Walli points out: …Standards happen when a technology space matures to the point that [...]

]]> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/10/when-language-goes-on-holiday.html#comment-217 Rob Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:17:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/10/when-language-goes-on-holiday.html#comment-217 Thanks. I've updated the Confucius reference. Thanks. I’ve updated the Confucius reference.

]]> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/10/when-language-goes-on-holiday.html#comment-216 The Mandarin Sun, 31 Dec 2006 16:20:00 +0000 http://www.robweir.com/blog/2006/10/when-language-goes-on-holiday.html#comment-216 The Duke of Wei didn't ask Confucius the question. His disciple Zilu was asking him a hypothetical question about what he would tell the Duke of Wei IF he was asked: QUOTE Zilu said: "If the ruler of Wei put the administration of his state in your hands, what would you do first?" Confucius said: "If something had to be first, I would say rectification of terms." Zilu said: "That's it? What a strange approach to things! Why start with rectification of terms?" Confucius said: "Yu, how unsophisticated you are. A gentleman should be careful when talking about things of which he is ignorant. When terms for things are not correct, then what is said will not make sense; when what is said does not make sense, then our undertakings must end in failure."<br />END QUOTE (My Translation) The Duke of Wei didn’t ask Confucius the question. His disciple Zilu was asking him a hypothetical question about what he would tell the Duke of Wei IF he was asked: QUOTE Zilu said: “If the ruler of Wei put the administration of his state in your hands, what would you do first?” Confucius said: “If something had to be first, I would say rectification of terms.” Zilu said: “That’s it? What a strange approach to things! Why start with rectification of terms?” Confucius said: “Yu, how unsophisticated you are. A gentleman should be careful when talking about things of which he is ignorant. When terms for things are not correct, then what is said will not make sense; when what is said does not make sense, then our undertakings must end in failure.”
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