Curious Omission In New-Style Formats

[Jussi Piitulainen]

Antoon Pardon writes:

> No, that is what people come up with afterwards. If you just start a
> conversation about how people learn and how long it would take to get
> some mastery and how we could present progress in a graph, virtually
> everyone uses the conventional axes layout. This talk about swapped
> axes only come from people who used the steep learning curve metaphor,
> when you then try to show them what an actual steep learning curve
> implies.

Or from people who try to be charitable when other people use it. At
least I like to think that that's what I did.

(I'm not at all inclined to do that about certain other terms, but those
discussions are also not inclined to go anywhere.)