At 16:36 03-10-2002 -0500, Dan Minette wrote: >Let me get this straight. English is a second language for you and you are >claiming that the definitive source of English (OED) is wrong and you are >right in defining an English word?
I am applying this horrible little thing called logic here. If X = Y, than -X = -Y. The fact that a lot of people accept that X = Y but at the same time believe that -X = -0.5Y does not make their interpretation valid. >So, do you also claim that the catwalk on an oil rig is misdefined because >cats don't walk on it; software is misdefined because it actually isn't >soft or a ware, a miser is not a tightwad because he isn't drunk? Or a >photograph is not a snapshot because there is no gun involved? Your analogy is flawed. While there is an opposing word for "Semite" (the word "anti-Semite"), there is no such thing as "anti-catwalk", "anti-software" or "anti-photograph". Jeroen "Likud Delenda Est" van Baardwijk __________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful-World-of-Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
