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Originally Posted by warch
He touts the primacy of rationale, of the value of embracing a lack of emotion, yet his post are generally spiced with affect-laden phrases like "bean counters" and ironically are highly passionate, ...
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The term 'bean counter' has zero affect-laden meaning. None. In the factory, only two types of people exist: bean counters and car guys.
In England, it is called a bonnet; not a hood. Is that also emotional laden as if a car was really a woman who routinely have big holes to strap an engine in? Of course not - except where some routinely assume affect-laden meaning.
Affect-laden meaning is completely a reader’s bias. If use of ‘bean counter’ caused you to see anything other than accountant or CFO or bank officer or stock analyst or payroll clerk or mizer, then that is your bias. Meanwhile do you also get upset when someone uses the word 'colour'? That word also gets English Nazis upset. Notice another phrase with no affect-laden meaning. A simple term summarizing a general category of people.
English Nazi: those unique people with proper english training, that fanatically dictate how sentences should be structured, who edit things for syntactical correctness at the expense of technical facts or clarity, who ... and who are still not properly defined. Provided is only a ballpark description that is more than sufficient here: English Nazi
You are having a problem with my wording. Did that sentence just address everyone in the Cellar, everyone in Warch's city, or just Warch? All three because the sentence is so flagrantly ambiguous - defective - and yet syntactically correct according to English Nazis. Did you jump to an affect-laden conclusion of who *You* is? That same sentence is now syntactically corrected:
"Warch has a problem with my wording".
Exact same meaning with ambiguity removed because ambiguous first person wording was intentionally replaced with third person – for clarity - and English Nazis then take revenge. First and third person sentences should be routinely mixed in a same paragraph for perspicuity – with zero respect for English Nazis and to ‘attack’ ambiguity. Did you assume an affect-laden meaning when first and third person were mixed?
They repeatedly dictated poetic meanings in those Beatle songs. We were literally given Ds if we did not agree. Proven repeatedly even on the cover of Abbey Road: Paul was dead. So many need to observe only using personal biases. Yesman065 is a classic and repeat offender. Paul was barefoot. Therefore Paul was dead.
Warch has a problem with my wording? Or do you have a problem with my wording? Exact same meaning said twice. Did your emotions perceive two sentences differently. Then you have applied a personal bias where none should exist. But I proved Paul was dead as an Enlish Nazi insisted. Again, any affect-laden meaning is completely and 100% a reader's personal bias.
Meanwhile but another attempt to move past Yesman065's emotional tirade. What technical facts are leaking out about unbalanced loading? Unbalanced would be all traffic moved to one side of the bridge so that, for example, resurfacing could be ongoing on lanes on that other side.
The term 'structurally deficient' has massive 'affect-laden' meaning - and says near zero about bridge integrity. "Structurally deficient" bridges can be completely safe. However what is being leaked using the word 'fatigue'? Whereas the two words have same 'affect-laden' meaning; the word 'fatigue' should grasp your attention like a hammer in the skull. “Structurally deficient” is a meaningless term for this thread and for discussions about the I-35W bridge. What, using the engineering term 'fatigue', is being rumored or leaked to reporters? The word 'fatigue' is important because it has technical meaning - when all affect-laden biases are acknowledged and removed by the reader. The word 'fatigue' has a serious technical meaning for a school bus that is far more important - all other ones.