RULE 10
BE PRECISE IN YOUR SPEECH
WHY IS MY LAPTOP OBSOLETE?
What do you see, when you look at a computer—at your own laptop, more
precisely? You
see a flat, thin, grey-and-black box. Less evidently, you see something to
type on and look
at. Nonetheless, even with the second perceptions included,what are you
seeing is hardly
the computer at all. That grey and black box happens to be a computer
right now, right
here and now, and maybe even an expensive computer.