At 03:48 PM 8/24/2005 -0700, you wrote:


>Gus Salavatore Calabrese wrote:
>
>>Languages will evolve.
>
>true
>
>>YOU cannot stop them.
>
>true, but we can all help people understand that they are not 
>communicating what they think they are communicating (sometimes it helps 
>to point out that what they are really communicating is their ignorance)
>
>>What is considered correct today,
>>will be intrascobulated tomorrow.
>
>What I meant by the words that I used does not change despite the fact 
>that the meaning of the word has changed subsequent to my use of it.
>This is one of the things that motivated Webster to write his 
>dictionary.  He wanted to preserve the meanings of the words.

Webster was a prescriptivist, a particularly low form of life. ;-)

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