Andreas Lloyd

Mark Shuttleworth’s recent post on the new gaudy desktop prettiness of Ubuntu has received a good deal of interest and discussion (more than 130 comments and counting). Pretty much all of that discussion was summed up in one of those comments: # Murray Cumming Says: October 25th, 2006 at 7:31 pm The bikeshed is brown. [...]

Native speakers can rarely explain the grammatical rules of their own language. In the same way, those who are most ‘fluent’ in the rituals, customs and traditions of a particular culture generally lack the detachment necessary to explain the ‘grammar’ of these practices in an intelligible manner. This is why we have anthropologists. – Kate [...]