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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