Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreLogo tutorial

At 18:46 26/12/2015 -0600, Anne Noname wrote:
> [quoting Kolbjørn Stuestøl:]
> > LibreLogo has a very simple error function. If 
> > there are bugs, a window pops up with a message 
> > telling that there is a mistake in the line number x.
>
> 'telling that there is a mistake' should be 
> changed maybe to 'stating ...'; an inanimate 
> object cannot tell; which is a form of speaking; ...

Surely you cannot believe this? No-one seriously 
can! I'm amazed that you can publish this - 
without apparent embarrassment - to such a large worldwide audience.

Shakespeare has letters and scrolls (written 
documents, as here) telling things as well as bells and clocks doing so:
"... the sound that tells what hour it is / Are 
clamorous groans, which strike upon my heart, / 
Which is the bell:" (Richard II: V, 5)
"When I do count the clock that tells the time, / 
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night;" (Sonnet 12)

And G. K. Chesterton opines "A good novel tells 
us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel 
tells us the truth about its author."

Will you dig up these authors and reprimand them?

In any case, if telling were indeed restricted to 
animate beings, surely stating (your suggested 
replacement) would be similarly restricted?

Brian Barker


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