Posted by dorayme on 06/04/07 09:03

In article <XEO8i.173434$sW6.104954@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi>,
"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> wrote:

> Once you take a word or abbreviation from a natural language
> and define it e.g. as an element name, attribute name, function name, or
> whatever, it by definition loses connection with the natural language - it's
> just a defined symbol, with no other meaning than the one you have given to
> it.

Yes, indeed. I think there is a general phenomena under which
this comes. Many names, for instance, had their origins in words
that had natural meaning, connotations from occupations, places
of birth, and other things. It is rare to even think of these
"natural" meanings with proper names, they no longer "mean"
anything, their meaning is exhausted in acting as labels to refer
to individuals, their origins long forgotten.

--
dorayme

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