- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 12:13:48 -0400
- To: abrahams@acm.org, "xml-uri@w3.org" <xml-uri@w3.org>
"Paul W. Abrahams" wrote: > The term `absolutization' seems to have crept into these discussions. It's > not used in RFC2396, which speaks of ``Resolving Relative References to > Absolute Form''. Am I the only one whose sense of literate English is > offended? Every time I say "resolution", someone else thinks I am talking about actually accessing the resource, so I have abandoned the term in favor of the barbarous, but intelligible, "absolutizing". As W.v.O.Quine said about the use of FLAMMABLE instead of INFLAMMABLE on trucks containing inflammable (= combustible) materials: "Semi-literacy is not a capital crime." -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis um dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)
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