Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: javascript Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:03:01 -0400 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 38 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: ANasIS7Js9OyLQwgloeBLQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:34008 On 3/16/2016 10:00 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > On 3/16/2016 9:39 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: >> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= writes: >>> On 3/16/2016 8:47 PM, Stefan Ram wrote: >>>> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= writes: >>>>> On 3/16/2016 10:14 AM, Stefan Ram wrote: >>>>>> What is the meaning of »x has nothing to do with y«? >>>>> That they are distinct within their domain. >>>> My dictionary says: >>>> have to do with >>>> 1. to be related to or connected with >>>> 2. to be associated with; deal with >>>> . So, the negation would be »not related«. >>>> »Distinct« is much weaker than »not related<<, since >>>> nearly /all/ things that are related still are distict. >>> I think the terms may have slightly different meaning in general >>> English and in a usenet discussion about what is on topic and what >>> is not. >> >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_pleading > > I think you will find that an attempt to always interpret > words in a technical usenet group based on general English > meaning would frequently result in total nonsense. For starters then everybody knows that Java means coffee. :-) Would it be special pleading to assume that Java here would be the programming language and not the more general usage of coffee? I don't think so. Arne