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Posted by David Cox on September 15, 2007, 2:44 am
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> In our last episode,
> the lovely and talented David Cox
> broadcast on comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html:
>
>
>>>I take this example from a writer in alt.usage.english
>>> of whether the "and" is required came up strictly as an issue of English
>>> usage, because it illustrates a recurring problem in HTML markup.
>>>
>>>> Bob went to the store for the following reasons:
>>>
>>>> (1) He had to get groceries for his mother;
>>>> (2) He wanted to get out of the house;
>>>> (3) He liked a girl who worked at the supermarket; and (?)
>>>> (4) He needed cigarettes.
>>>
>>> How should this be marked up?
>
>> If I have one value in the universe it is that I am not afraid to ask the
>> stupid questions.
>
>> Why are you trying to use a fairly good logically structured language to
>> solve an illogically badly structured question?
>
> Because natural language is generally illogical and badly structured.
> Trying to get natural prose marked up properly is a challenge which I
> realize does not occur in soulless geek manuals --- and that soulless
> geeks
> have defined HTML is rather at the heart of the problem.
>
> --
> Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/>
> <http://myspace.com/larseighner>
> Countdown: 493 days to go.
> What do you do when you're debranded?
Definitely not lovely, but talented enough to know that it is the computer
that is souless, (yet) and we have to speak its language until it learns
ours. I can forgive the geeks not allowing for writers that who also do not
understand our language.
David F. Cox
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