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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Dolphin
From:       Calum Morrell <calum () calummorrell ! com>
Date:       2007-10-10 10:36:22
Message-ID: 470CAB26.1070402 () calummorrell ! com
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Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> On Wednesday October 10 2007 11:21:03 Calum Morrell wrote:
>> Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
>>> Ah, the "no true scotsman" fallacy right on the usability list :) How
>>> cute!
>> Feel like explaining this one to a Scotsman?
> 
> Well, wikipedia has an article
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
> 
> which includes this example
> 
> Argument: "No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
> Reply: "But my uncle Angus, who is a Scotsman, likes sugar with his porridge."
> Rebuttal: "Aye, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge."
> 
> In the above case, it was a "normal windows user" who would never install a 
> file manager (I have seen some do this, mostly to get a norton commander-like 
> interface btw). If, the author contends, the user does this /anyway/ the user 
> is not a "true" normal user.
> 

Ah thank you, I'm with you now.

Never heard the phrase (or argument) before, but then, it was created by 
a sassenach who wouldn't realise that no true Scotsman eats porridge.. 
just chuchters ;)

-- 
Calum Morrell BSc MBCS
IT Consultant & Photographer
http://www.calummorrell.com
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