Thoughts on Idle
- Spelling
- If island, aisle and isle are spelled with an ’s’, then shouldn’t idle be spelled ‘isdle’?
- Chat Rooms
- If a person in a chat room is ‘isdle’, that means they are busy doing something else. If they are not idle in the chat room, that means that they are idle in real life. Shouldn’t the term ‘idle’ be applied to people who are spending time chatting when they could be doing something else?
- Engines
- If an engine is idling, that means its working, but just enough to maintain it’s host’s current state. If you are a doctor or a dentist who is working to keep a patient in their current state, would you be considered ‘idling’?
ila wrote:
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Posted 03 Sep 2007 at 6:26 pm ¶