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From: der Mouse <mouse_at_Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
Date: Mon Jun 21 18:57:17 2004

>> Because I personally do not know it does not mean it's lost! (I
>> don't know how to extract nickel from ore, either, but has _that_
>> knowledge been lost? Hardly!)
> Exactly just because you "know" how to do something doesn't mean you
> can do it. I know how to make a statue or a nice dining room table
> but I lack the finer skill to actually do it.

Then I'd argue that you don't actually know how; you just know enough
that you could learn how with practice. (Or practise, in your case. :)

> That's where the skills are being lost, these things take practise.

The skills that are being lost are the ones that cannot be taught but
instead must be learned, by doing, and doing, and doing. Those skills
it is no great catastrophe to lose, because each person must relearn
them anyway, "lost" or not.

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