Watch Your Words: a note of thanx

Michael Erickson (mericks who-is-at ruralnet.net)
Thu, 15 Jan 1998 17:24:23 -0700

Ken & Sally,

Thanxs for taking the time and clarifying the cyberspace meaning of the
term "lurkers." Being relatively a new traveler in cyberspace I was
unaware of the cyber meaning of the term

. Your point is well taken Sally. It is similar to the African-Americans
in the 60's who used a formerly pejorative term "black" with new meaning
and new pride. "Black is Beautiful" & " Black Pride" etc.

As Vygotsky aptly phrased it, " A word in context means both more and less
than the same word in isolation; more, because it acquires new context;
less because its meaning is limited and narrowed by the context."

Thanxs, again,

A fellow Lurker, in the non-pejorative sense