Grammars, Who Needs them?
Michael Haggett
michaelhaggett at lineone.net
Sat May 19 05:00:58 EDT 2001
c stirling bartholomew wrote (18 May):
>The contractor concludes that the architect
is a nut case and drops the discussion.
>The contractor has an intuitive grasp of the semiotics of wallboard.
The architect is a traditional grammarian.
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MH: A rather strange switching of roles here, Clay. In my experience no
contractor would understand what semiotics means, even instinctively
(although they instinctively know all architects are nutcases ;-)
only a client or end user would care only for the finished appearance;
only an engineer would talk like his "architect"; and only an architect
would be able to understand these different languages yet speak in
language all could understand.
Michael Haggett
www.ntgreek.com
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