Hi, Matt Kundert
if you really were the snobbish, "traditional presciptivist" you say you
are
I didn't. "As a traditional prescriptivist regarding the backbone of
language, I don't go with the trendy second meaning." I note you didn't
quote me - purely accidentally.
you would _not_ have looked up the meaning of a word in Wikipedia, the
antithesis of snobs.
As we see, and as is so often the case these days, this is a detection of a
non-existent contradiction.
Say what you will about its virtues, there ain't no backbone in a thing
that can changed by whim or will.
Which Wikipedia is not. Here's some fun recursion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia
might have "looked it up in Fowler"
Fowler is neat. Often eccentric, but neat. Fowler & Fowler (in the original
editions) is better yet.
MRB
http://www.fuguewriter.com
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