What a completely useless response. You completely missed the point of my post.
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 11:40:06AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: >> Alright, then consider this. Since a word list in a dictionary has a >> questionable copyright, it must be removed from a dictionary. Then, >> people notice some common words no longer exist in the dictionary, so >> they add them. Eventually, every missing word will be added back to the >> dictionary, so that the end result is identical to the original. > > That’s quite an assumption; I seriously doubt it. Assuming that the > words removed were not in any of the other word lists used, then they > weren’t all that common. And assuming that words flow in at a steady > rate, a large number of new words will get added that weren’t in the > original, many of the words in the original won’t get suggested at all, > and I would expect that some of the words in the old word‐lists might > get suggested but turned down as unsuitable. It was a scenario to consider, which was completely possible. I didn't suggest it would happen in this particular case. What if the offending word list contained only the words "the, if, and". Of course those words would be immediately replaced. >> Have you ever heard of two original novels independently written that >> were identical to each other? No, that's inconceivable. > > Identical, no. But many hackneyed or strongly genre‐bound novels do turn > out increadibly similar to each other. Word-for-word identical? Are you on fucking crack? >> But it's >> completely conceivable for two independently compiled dictionaries to be >> identical, or very nearly so. > > I wouldn’t describe it as likely. The choice of words (do you add cwm? > bakress? ye? luculent? cromulent? boxen? virii? f**k? The spelling > without the astericks? I can see large debates on each of those words) > and the large selection mean that any two wordlists are probably going > to have significant differences in the set of words included. Don't waste time with retarded suggestions that have absolutely nothing to do with the issue at hand. -- People said I was dumb, but I proved them!
