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Article #231Re: when metaphor becomes reality
From: R.L.Hesketh
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1989 14:23
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 1989 14:23
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In article <BOB.89Dec5154524@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >A simple example of momentary metaphorical disorientation that shows >how far the mind will stretch in its attempt to impose order on the >chaos around us... Try cut-and-paste from a piece of paper to the screen and see how silly you feel when it still won't work after a couple of attempts! It would be interesting to note how many people edit on paper the same way they edit in a WYSIWYG system .. do you cross out and scribble in a vane attempt to overwrite something or do you rewrite from scratch? Can "composing at the keyboard" ever be considered on par with simply copying in from paper? Whilst there is a certain amount of redundancy involved here .. can we justify it by saying that the time spent writing on paper includes much needed thinking time to coalesce our arguments? Richard
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!harrier.ukc.ac.uk!rlh2 From: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (R.L.Hesketh) Newsgroups: comp.cog-eng Subject: Re: when metaphor becomes reality Message-ID: <3404@harrier.ukc.ac.uk> Date: 6 Dec 89 14:23:22 GMT References: <BOB.89Dec5154524@volitans.MorningStar.Com> Reply-To: rlh2@ukc.ac.uk (Richard Hesketh) Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. Lines: 17