[FRIAM] Abducktion

[Tom Johnson]

Or the equally famous Spanish phrase, "The pencil broke itself."  A phrase
which you think I would remember.
TJ

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 12:55 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> 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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