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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (22022)	2/16/2001 7:36:18 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 29987

*Off topic rant* Noel, you think we should just grunt around here? None of those big words? But what's with that flash "Occam's razor" stuff anyway? Not only a big word, but few know about it. With that comma thing before the s, you really lost them. I figure you mean "use the KISS* idea" rather than "use Occam's razor as a decision tool". It took me five minutes to figure what you meant. You should use simple four-letter words. As Xena [Lucy Lawless] said, [in explanation to reporters who grabbed their dictionaries when she used the expression 'it's not some atavistic act of hostility' when responding to questions about Madeleine Albright, a self-declared Xena fan, and NZ's nuclear-power policies], English is full of hordes of words, so why not use them? They add detail, colour and the idea of wassup. I'm with Xena. Okay, sometimes I have to look a word up, but that's no bad thing if the big words aren't simply obfuscation dictionary.com Who can forget Spiro Agnew's "Nattering Nabobs of Negativism"? Who had heard of a Nabob? The wonder of IT brings the past to life and finds Spiro... go.com In my experience, short explanations are unconvincing platitudes, cliches, slogans or unreasoned assertions. TV has given attention spans measured in milliseconds [or perhaps simply makes people think an attention span of a millisecond is normal]. Anyway, de-pledge is an as ugly-as-sin word. Dehypothecate is much nicer. Also, people who have hypothecated their stock haven't pledged it. They pledge their stock to secure their margins and agree to hypothecate it [lend it] and the broker lends it to somebody else who pledges their assets to cover the loan when they sell the stock the broker lends them. I guess lend is the simplest word to describe what hypothecate means, but it isn't so precise. Carl Barks [the Disney Ducks creator], from whom I learned about pixilated parrots as a child and lots of other big words, used a lot of words and they seemed to make sense to me. That's my theory anyway. Which could be a definition 3 problem [as you pointed out]. dictionary.com <1 A new word, expression, or usage. 2 The creation or use of new words or senses. 3 Psychiatry. A meaningless word used by a psychotic. 4 Theology. A new doctrine or a new interpretation of scripture. > Okay, that's long-winded [over 20 words long], polysyllabic dictionary.com but isn't that a strong argument? Down with Occam's Razor decision-tree analysis! Hooray for big words... Mqurice * = Keep It Simple Stupid