Really Random Thoughs

From Ben's Writing

This is a collection, of sorts, that is can, at times, be really silly, or "in-jokie" that some people may not get, or may find that they insult their intelligence, others might have a deep appreciation of them, and, of course, there will always be people who will simply shake their head and sigh after reading of them. I'll admit I think I've assumed all those roles already, so I'll take no offence if you don't find them relevant, or, well, whatever...

UNIX and Linux "Stuff"

A place when sometimes more can equal less:

export more=less

Well, I'm lying, you can also do it in DOS (or Windows) with doskey, see Doskey Macros for details, if you really care that much.

English

In English we can arbitrarily give names to names using quotation marks. As an example: Chicago is the name of a city, whereas "Chicago" or 'Chicago' (which ever you prefer) is the name of the word itself; that is, it refers to the word Chicago and not the city. This mean we could assign names to names ad infinitum. For instance, ""Chicago"" is the name or a reference to "Chicago", and so on. This lead me to wonder whether or not sentences, or statements have names too.

We generally use quotes to surround sentences or fragments of them, to suggest to the reader that they are not our own, but that they are of importance in given context they are invoked in. That said, can the sentence "I am me" be referred to by the name ""I am me"". Certainly, we've attributed names to great accomplishments, or bodies of work, such as Fermat's Theorem, Moore's Law, etc.; but these are special cases, we rarely attribute names to benign staments such as: "Hey, how are you?", "I'm doing well, thanks!". These types of sentences are members of the set of "greatings" and "responses", respectfully, which refere to a much larger goups of sentences, not a singular one.

To be continued...