{"id":157,"date":"2005-05-04T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T09:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=157"},"modified":"2006-01-08T00:36:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-08T08:36:56","slug":"i-just-happen-to-have-a-twenty-volume-refutation-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"I just happen to have a twenty volume refutation here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, in keeping with my goal of getting people who have worked on identity to start supporting each other more, I nominated Pat Patterson of Sun Microsystems for an important award (the coveted Serenity Award as mentioned here<\/a>). <\/p>\n

I have to thank Pat for taking the time to answer me. But – and I'm not complaining about his obvious passion – his response read like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Sorry to be a language bore, but… “dialog with them”??? Does every<\/i> noun have to be munged into a verb? Is there anything that “talking with them” doesn't convey that “dialog with them” does? Sorry – pet hate of mine…”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I was “on the road” at the time, and assumed I must have lost touch with our mother tongue. Embarrased, I wrote back to Pat as follows<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“You are right. Hats off to anyone who still believes in language. So we'll talk instead.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And indeed we are setting up time for that (and a glass of something, I expect) at DIDW.<\/p>\n

But back at home, I turned to my twenty volume edition of the Oxford English Dictionary for “cultural renewal”. And guess what I found?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\"A \"A<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Hmmm. I wonder if 400 years of continuous usage makes it? Est-ce que c'est une dialogue de sourds? <\/p>\n

I'm feeling “intransitive” on this one, Pat. Looking forward to dialoging again, too.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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