<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [lbo-talk] Sublation</title></head><body> <div>I agree.  Traduttore=Tradittore.  There are stranger loan-words</div> <div>in the English language than aufhebung.  Leave it at that.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Shane Mage<br> <br> "When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even downright silly.<br> </div> <div>When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true."  (N. Weiner)</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">What a bullshit word!  I nominate it for the worst word in the English language.  Stop, now, please!</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">"Transcendence" sucks, too, but not nearly as much as this turd in the verbal punchbowl.  Transcendence, improvement, correction, betterment, digestion --- anything but "sublation!"</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Speak English and stop preening, people.  This is democracy we're trying to build.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br> ___________________________________<br> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</blockquote> <div><br></div> </body> </html>