John, "Alex deLarge" was the name of Malcolm McDowell's character in *A Clockwork Orange*, right? I smell...well, not a rat, a link is a link and every link counts, but I very deliberately didn't send this your way because it has precious little to do with usability. What gives?

Posted by: Adam on March 1, 2003 11:13 AM

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I thought it was a wonderful exercise in writing 4,096 words without saying much of substance, except perhaps to demonstrate a semi-exotic vocabulary under inapropriate circumstances.

Posted by: Bookworm on March 1, 2003 11:51 AM

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• "registry for prospective enactment by other signatory communities, or potentially adoption into the core framework."
  
• "Provided thusly, could manifest in and adapt to widely separated locations and contexts"
  
• "it is already easy to caricature this project as guilelessly utopian."
  
• "it reads like an overly ambitious first-year law student's essay."
  

I wonder if John read this document before linking to it. I wonder if the author sat with a thesaurus on his lap so he could use interesting words to seemingly elevate the importance of his speech.

Posted by: Cecil on March 1, 2003 12:45 PM

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- Nope, Cecil, sorry, it was almost completely stream of consciousness. I grew up the son of a lawyer and I can write like that at the drop of a hat. (I can also do pretty good pastiches of academic theorist, military, retromarxist, and so on. It's like ventriloquism.)

- "Know your audience." The people who need most to integrate such ideas into the corpus of their thought write, read, and maybe even think in this kind of language.

- You may think it's silly, I don't. Talk to me in a hundred years and we'll see who's right. In the meantime, I doubt you can think of any critique that I haven't already anticipated. I know the thing is full of holes, but I also thought the idea was valid enough that simply getting it out there and letting other, better minds work it was worthwhile.

Judging from my inbox, the supposition was correct. Sorry if it didn't work for you; I hope you at least got a chuckle out of it or otherwise found your time not completely wasted in reading it.

Posted by: Adam on March 1, 2003 10:47 PM

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