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Semantic Restructuring is the pursuit of enlightenment, enlivenment, empowerment through the creative re-arranging of the building blocks of meaning. For a better description, Start Here.


2004:01:07

995 - Props to Language Log

"If you're going to be an annoying precriptive nag, at least don't be a terminologically ignorant annoying prescriptive nag."

I need to figure out who's list I got this link from, I think it was Lott. Anyway, this has been the most fulfilling blog I've found so far. Really good stuff; lots of content right in the sweet spot of my interests. I was embarassed not to see the punchline coming; guess I'm a hopeless case.

I goofed on my initial trackback for this; accidentally setting up a trackback that made it look as if the article were tracking back to itself. I've emailed the writer, I'm sure it'll get fixed, but it sure does show how unclear on the concept I can be. But, in my defense, trackbacks gotta qualify as "bleeding edge." Most folks still don't have their heads around RSS (me, for instance, two weeks ago.)

The idea of making commentators responsible for hosting their comments strikes me as wise. If you aren't willing to have your comments on your own site then perhaps the comments weren't worth making in the first place. The other angle that's interesting about trackbacks is they will potentially take a reader through a conversation with each bit in context of its hosting site.

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