At 10:59 -0400 2003-07-21, Patrick Andries wrote:
----- Message d'origine ----- De: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 19:56 -0400 2003-07-20, Patrick Andries wrote:
>Obviously, the AP has found someone to say it is artificial.
Of course, all language is artificial.
Well, at least all new words that can be traced to someone can be so � described �.
*All* words must be traced to someone. They do not grow on trees.
I also wonder if anybody in the US said to the inventor of email or any new word : this is artificial. It seems somewhat nonsensical or at least tautological for any newly coined word.
eBook, e-mail, eBay, e-money, and all that gunk. I suppose we could do without them. Even Apple's gone weird about it. I don't know what the "i" in the iLifestyle suite (iChat, iPhoto, iBook, iThis, iThat) means.
Perhaps we should coin another set of artificial uWords for anything uNicode compatible e.g. uMail, uPage, uFont... :-)
-- Peter Kirk [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/
