Hello all:
By way of private email I was reminded by another member of
our list:
> Just goes to show that anything can mean anything depending on
> context
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and this person is absolutely correct.
>> Han Tacoma wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:01:53 -0500 "Altman, Barbara"
>> <[log in to unmask]>
>> commented:
>>
> > I couldn't help noticing the quote that one participant has
> > at the end of his message.
> >
> > ~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none ~
>>
>> This is part of my email signature that I have been carrying
>> with me
>> since the 80's before my SCI, when I used to teach Knowledge
>> Based Systems,
>> an area of Artificial Intelligence in Computer Science.
>>
> > Have you ever thought to examine your attitudes towards one
> > another: i. e. attitudes of persons with physically
> > disability toward persons who are cognitively impaired,
> > which include some with barely any intelligence.
> >
> > I think I would rephrase the above "humanity is better than
> > none"
>>
>> I do, however, see your point regarding the possibility of it
>> being offensive.
On that basis, I believe I owe an apology to my *knee jerk reaction*
reply to the original post from "Susanne Berg" <[log in to unmask]> On
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 23:35:01 +0100,
where she gave her opinion on "the importance of language".
It is sometimes difficult for me to keep focus in light that
I speak many languages and some words have no translation
into a different language, ie. "gemutlichheit", "gestalt"
in German; "joi-du-vivre (sp?)" in French; "Macho" -- many
times misunderstood -- in Spanish; "mahimahi" in Hawaian,
really meaning *Dolphin -- the fish* (and I have eaten it,
and no longer have an interest in it.)
CONTEXT is very important! When Herman Hesse's work *Magister
Ludi* is translated into English as *The Glass Bead Game*, we
do have a problem and CONTEXT is again at the root of misunderstanding.
Cheers!
--
Han Tacoma
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~ Artificial Intelligence is better than none! ~
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