literal: 1. Being in accordance with, conforming to, or upholding the exact or primary meaning of a word or words.
If one wishes to communicate one must comply with the literal definition of words. Colloquial or private means of words must not be recognized by the courts in contract enforcment because advertisements, contracts, brochures, books, etc become unprocessable by the general public.
If one examines the computer use of the work literal it becomes even clearer.
A literal in a computer program is prewritten unchanging text embedded in the code of the program which has a fixed and constant meaning/use. Computer programs use 'variables' for items who's meaning/use must me modified during the execution of the activity.
If courts allow private or non-literal meanings of words to be recognized at the will of one party then all words are changed from meaningful on thier own to variables which can never be evaluated unless one can check their state not NOW but when they were used in the context being debated. Since that is impossible in most situations all communications would become meaningless. And since this is probably falling on deaf eyes (nicely blended metafore yes?) this one is meaningless too.
Thank you
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by frighted hair.
The work you used it 'literal'
literal: 1. Being in accordance with, conforming to, or upholding the exact or primary meaning of a word or words.
If one wishes to communicate one must comply with the literal definition of words. Colloquial or private means of words must not be recognized by the courts in contract enforcment because advertisements, contracts, brochures, books, etc become unprocessable by the general public.
If one examines the computer use of the work literal it becomes even clearer.
A literal in a computer program is prewritten unchanging text embedded in the code of the program which has a fixed and constant meaning/use. Computer programs use 'variables' for items who's meaning/use must me modified during the execution of the activity.
If courts allow private or non-literal meanings of words to be recognized at the will of one party then all words are changed from meaningful on thier own to variables which can never be evaluated unless one can check their state not NOW but when they were used in the context being debated. Since that is impossible in most situations all communications would become meaningless. And since this is probably falling on deaf eyes (nicely blended metafore yes?) this one is meaningless too.
Thank you