Friday, January 24, 2014

01/24/14: Reprint of: 12/24/13: A synopsis of the essentials of my code policies

December 24, 2013
The conglomerate attacked me so much and for so long, using its own interpretations of everything that I said or did to make accusations about me, that I finally felt that I wouldn’t be able to publish so much as a sentence without writing some policies describing my thoughts and plans about code.
For a long time, I republished my code policies at the beginning of each day of writing.  Then, I stopped doing that because I figured that people understood the policies.
It's been a while since I have republished them; there are many reprints of them on one of my previous WordPress blogs, "whilehomeless."
I'll try to provide a synopsis of some of their essentials here:
--If I use code, I'll say that's what I'm doing.  I'll indicate its presence by saying "code" or in some other way that states in so many words that the code is there.
--There are some words that were already prevalent in written or spoken language before the conglomerate happened.  The conglomerate should not be allowed to mangle language and cause people who don't support the conglomerate to go into agonized contortions trying to avoid the natural word for a sentence.  If something is "new," you can't say that it's "not old" all the time; you have to say that it's new.  A lot of words are that way.
--Then there's the fact that language is meant to be varied, interesting and expressive rather than monotonous and threatening or monotonous and fearful.  There are a lot of words that might not get used all the time but that are good words that the conglomerate should be prevented from stealing and distorting for nefarious purposes.
People who use a lot of conglomerate-supportive code words at once, or who use a conglomerate-supportive code word in a prominent and gratuitous way, are probably and unfortunately supporting the conglomerate.  That's not the same thing as people who are trying to write and speak normally and who don't want the conglomerate to control them.
Copyright L. Kochman, December 24, 2013 @ 7:32 p.m.
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January 24, 2014
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