[FRIAM] words RE: words

[lrudolph at meganet.net]

Nick thinks:

> As I think Lee would say (dammit, Lee, where are you?), don't ask a fish
> about water; he knows nothing of it.

I would not say that; I have always thought it was a particularly silly
thing to say.  Since there are approximately 30 more messages to work
through, I won't expand on why I think it's silly unless necessary, and in
any case later.  (But I was quite serious in my earlier four-term analogy
to the effect that "water" is to "fish" as whatever it was--emergence?--is
to whatever they were--coders?)