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To: Bruce Brown who wrote (49561)	12/19/2001 6:07:21 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 54805

Why High-Tech Firms Can't Afford to Ignore Patents In many industries, firms eager to capture gains from their innovations are filing patent applications at an unprecedented rate. At the same time they are struggling to keep up with accelerating development cycles, shrinking lead times and changing legal interpretations. A recent Wharton conference on "Managing Knowledge Assets: Changing Rules and Emerging Strategies," addressed some of these issues and asked the key question: What are firms doing to protect their knowledge assets? knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

To: Bruce Brown who wrote (49561)	12/20/2001 10:45:02 AM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 54805

would imagine that he would care if he was introduced as Mr. Warren Buffet rather than Mr. Warren Buffett considering the two are not pronounced the same. congratulations for comparing apples to oranges. i was talking about the spelling of his name in an internet chatroom where he is (presumably) not present (and presumably has no interest in being present because he dozent kear); you bring up a scenario in which his surname is incorrectly vocalized in his physical presence (and presumably in the auditory/visual presence of a physical and/or electronically-connected audience, which deepens the Care Factor something considerable), in which context he would presumably care about the pronunciation of his surname. which brings us to the important subject of context in language use. as a native speaker of a language develops language skills, he or she becomes better able to distinguish different usage contexts and adapt speech (or writing) to same. the unique style of a person's usage, flowing through such diverse contexts, is called an idiolect. an idiolect is like a dialect belonging to one person instead of a larger community (naturally the idolect reflects the influences of the dialect, which in turn reflects the influences of the language in question [e.g., its synatical, lexical & phonological characteristics], which in turn reflects the capabilities and limitations of the human brain as a vehicle for natural-language communication). as one develops speech & writing skills, nuancing on the idiolect level may include, e.g., deliberate mistakes. even speling error.s introduced for ironic effect. such effect may be heightened when others attempt to correct said "errors" because 1. they cannot argue on the subject-point level 2. they mistakenly interpret the speaker/writer's "errors" as errors of competence, as opposed to a modulation of performance* 3. they are discovering their inner schoolmarm 4. they don't get the joke w/r/t 1: no comment! w/r/t 2: this nicely juxtaposes the competence/performance dichotomy originally postulated by Chomsky in the late 50s. this served as the jumping-off point for work by NC and others on the theory of a Universal Grammar (which theory, parenthetically, i feel is bogus, though one must give NC and Halle some considerable nod for their work on generative phonology). i would admit that a conscious juxtaposing of these elements, in the form of a pseudo-correction of a pseudo-error, would be an admissible meta-irony worthy of a chuckle. w/r/t 3: no comment! w/r/t 4: no comment! naturally, there are higher-order contexts and meta-contexts in which this all plays out, with corresponding potentials for ironic modulation.