Re: [zzdev] Re: :zz: Orthoplex or Hypergrid? You decide

["Leslie Carr" <lac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > The naming of cats is a xxxx matter; it isn't just one of your everday
games
>
> I'm sorry, but I do not get that reference.

Did I leave that in? How embarrassing! I was trying to recall a line from TS
Eliot's poem "The Naming of Cats" which is used as an introduction to the
Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical "Cats". As it happens it is even more relevant
in the light of Tuomas' comments:

The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I'm as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have three different names.

If you look at the poem itself (http://www.ia.net/~fboyken/catpoem.html) you
see that we might have call for an everyday name ('that the family use
daily'), a dignified name (to 'cherish his pride') and an ineffable name
('which no human research can discover').

I am happy that this should not be a competition between names (or
purposes); can we simply agree to use both names? After all, the English
language already allows us "rectangle" and "oblong", "diamond" and
"rhombus", "grid" and "matrix".
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Les