"this me"?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Aug 8 00:59:52 EDT 2013


On 8/7/13 11:33 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Jim-
>
> Wednesday, August 7, 2013, 8:33:26 PM, you wrote:
>
>> How about the effective me?
>
> After my initial shock, I'm thinking that this is kind of not too bad.
> It's a weird use of "effective", but you could see if you're in the
> context of a behavior object by checking
>
> if me is not the effective me then...
>
> but personally I prefer "myself", if that's not too narcissistic or
> self-referential or something...
>
> if me is not myself then...
>

I'm hardly ever myself, but I do sort of like "effective me". I'd put it 
in second place after "behaviorObject" (or "scriptObject" if we must.) 
It's a clever use of language we already have. The down side is that it 
still has that "me" in it.

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