[FRIAM] Abducktion

[Frank Wimberly]

In Spanish if you drop your cup you say, "See me cayó la taza".  A literal
word--for-word  translation is "The cup fell itself on me".  Some people
say this is an effort to avoid responsibility.

Frank

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Frank C. Wimberly
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020, 9:01 AM Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
wrote:

> Very much so. We hired a grad student a long time ago (he stayed with us
> until he retired). He wrote great Pascal programs. He wrote great Pascal
> programs in C++, and in JavaScript. The effect of your first programming
> language on style, idioms, and your feelings about recursion and
> encapsulation.
>
> —Barry
>
> On 6 Aug 2020, at 23:24, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
>
> Nah.  He means more than that.  Even ordinary languages predispose users
> to one kind of discourse or another.  I assume that programming languages
> do the same.
>
>
>
> N
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