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Ralph Kessel wrote:
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Benjamin Lee Whorf made an observation during the 1930's that was
collectively tagged the Whorf-Sapir hypothesis while working in an
environment with drums filled with gasoline were not "flammable" but
empty drums were. This to the view that linguistic/semantic factors
determine how we view the world, eg the Eskimos/Inuit have over 20
words for snow. George Orwell, Adolph Hitler, and others picked up
this concept with "Newspeak". Of course, our news media continuously
pack new words and phrases into our language. "Multi-tasking" had a
very specific and precise meaning in computer science and now it is
interpreted as doing anything at the same time. (Something impossible
except under quantum mechanics). <br>
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Depends on whether you're talking about preemptive multi-tasking or
cooperative multi-tasking.<br>
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