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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
On the autism part, it was your phrasing. You implied there was something wrong with HarryT. Therefore I read it as insulting to both HarryT and anyone who might be autistic or any form of a handicap.
I am pretty sure if I asked if your IQ was below 60, I would get heavily moderated if not suspended.
I could hold a book in braille and yes some people could read it. Now I couldn't read it because I don't know braille.
You cannot physically hold an ebook.
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I don't know. I asked if he was. And yeah I implied that autism had some part that are wrong (but some plus on the side aswell, they are just different, it's just a trade off sometimes). But when you know the diagnosis of somebody, sometimes it helps accepting and dealing with the deficiencies. Long shot related, but some people hate homosexuals at first, especially when they think it's a life choice (I'm not saying it's an excuse to hate), but the human mind is so that when they learn that some (especially males) are born like that and it's not a choice, they become more acceptant and "normal" (they behave less with the guts).
Anyway, since he took it as an insult, I think he's no autistic, so I just hate him (I'm joking ^^).
I think I understand what you mean by derogatory: I was indeed saying that I thought HarryT's way of discussing had flaws. Which I linked to some autists I met in my life. What's derogatory would be saying that I think he's expressing himself badly, correct?
I think you can hold an ebook. You could even hold thousands of them in a tiny USB key. If books are made of paper and glue and ink, ebook (their physical incarnation) are made of magnetic grains (or something else it depends what you use as storage solution, which can change with technology, but you can imagine some weird person storing binary data as big paper card deck). Perhaps we are talking about the limits of the word intagible, but I recall very old courses of philosophy where they said intangible was for stuff like ideas, our perception of color, etc... In a book, or ebook, the intangible part would be the story itself.