Yes, some came overnight, but always after some latent period of being impending. Boris Shoshensky
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 7/23/08 7:05:57 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > "How would either of us go about showing the other was "wrong"? > > Very simple. 'Art' has a history in evolution of the development of > language > and selected by those forces by association with a bunch of related things. > 'foopgoom' has nothing of that, only someones creative ability to create > dead > order of letters. > Boris Shoshensky > > Aw, shoot, Boris, do you have any idea how many locutions have been devised in your time, in the "arts", that all but overnight became accepted as so-called "words" or phrases that "HAVE meaning"? 'Deconstruction', 'rap', 'nouveau roman', 'theater of the absurd'. 'post-modernism', 'sit-com', 'truthiness', 'bee-bop', 'noir', 'post-structuralism', and on and on. When did each of these "become" a "word"? Never. There came a time when some lexicologists, eager to look au courant, included the locution in their dictionaries. More conservative lexicologists decided to hold off for a while. If, over time, the contemplation of the word stirred a roughly similar notion in what was in their judgment "enough" readers' minds, they put it in their dictionary -- and they concocted a "definition", which is no more than a lexicologist's attempt to describe the notion in the minds of people familiar with the usage of the location. Your notion that it then "IS" a word is naive "ontology". ************** Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) ____________________________________________________________ Click for free information on obtaining a second mortgage. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/Ioyw6i4tzQ0rZlQFSQOlqLuyIzYVNr 2CKj2XPMtw5JYuxBd5y4ABSE/
