Comments on: Intellectual property is a silly euphemism http://stevendkrause.com/2008/02/26/intellectual-property-is-a-silly-euphemism/ School, work, life, and everything else Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:16:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: collin http://stevendkrause.com/2008/02/26/intellectual-property-is-a-silly-euphemism/#comment-130 collin Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:54:16 +0000 http://stevendkrause.com/2008/02/26/intellectual-property-is-a-silly-euphemism/#comment-130 The first half was a little strange--it felt like either Cory or his editor was insisting on Britishness. "Property, after all, is a useful, well-understood concept in law and custom, the kind of thing that a punter can get his head around without too much thinking" is a sentence that could just as easily read "...the kind of thing that we can get our heads around..." The flat/loo thing I could live with, but "punter" really stuck out for me. By the second half, though, that insistence is gone. Makes me wonder if he wasn't instructed or edited to make sure that he resonated with Brits before getting to the main arg. Not that any of this is relevant to the piece itself... ;-) cgb The first half was a little strange–it felt like either Cory or his editor was insisting on Britishness. “Property, after all, is a useful, well-understood concept in law and custom, the kind of thing that a punter can get his head around without too much thinking” is a sentence that could just as easily read “…the kind of thing that we can get our heads around…” The flat/loo thing I could live with, but “punter” really stuck out for me.

By the second half, though, that insistence is gone. Makes me wonder if he wasn’t instructed or edited to make sure that he resonated with Brits before getting to the main arg.

Not that any of this is relevant to the piece itself… ;-)

cgb

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