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On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Andrew S. Townley <ast@a...> wrote: Actually, the point of my peroration was that it wasn’t about what anyone but the text of the spec says. Unfortunately, when you ask a spec what it *means* by what it says, you get a look that is not precisely blank but definitely uninformative. Texts do not interpret themselves: they have to be interpreted by human beings who are either in an authoritative position by fiat or who are guided by an interpretive tradition that everyone around them accepts. -- John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan cowan@c... C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. --Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"
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