[MUD-Dev] Re: UBE/high: Re: FW: UBE/high: Re: W IRED: Kilers have more fun

[Dr. Cat]

Marian Griffith wrote:
> 
> On Fri 14 Aug, Koster, Raph wrote:
> (Actually Dr.Cat did ;)
> 
> > > I still don't think anyone really understands Marian's classic Tailor 
> > > Problem.
> > > Except maybe Marian.  (Hi again, Marian!)
> 
> I tried to explain to the best of my ability  (and thanks for saying it
> is a classic problem :) I will give it another try if I really was that
> confusing to you all.

I think you explained it fine.  It's just like a travelling salesman from 
America who sells TV antennas and sparkplugs going to someplace with some 
tribe that's never encountered TVs or cars, and trying to explain what his 
antennas and sparkplugs are for.  Like Australian aborigines or someone.

Or some vegemite salesman from Australia coming to America and saying "No 
really, back where I come from, some blokes LIKE to eat this stuff!"

If somebody doesn't have the context to understand what you're saying, 
somewhere in their personal experience, they're not going to understand you.

(Actually, I don't think *anyone* can really understand vegemite.  Not 
even the people who do eat it voluntarily.  It's just one of life's great 
mysteries.)

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