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From: David Taylor on 19 Aug 2006 07:45 On 2006-08-19, Brimstone <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Paul {Hamilton Rooney} wrote: > >> If we all email them today, maybe they'll put it in the next edition! > > Since it's an inaccurate usage why bother? There is so much wrong with that sentence, I don't entirely know where to start. The English language is described BY it's usage. The dictionaries are merely there to document that usage. That English changes over time is rather obvious -- look at Shakespeare's plays. -- David Taylor
From: David Taylor on 19 Aug 2006 07:46 On 2006-08-19, Brimstone <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > Paul {Hamilton Rooney} wrote: >> >> Usage is usage. Neither accurate nor inaccurate. That's how language >> works. > > Quite pbnviously the OED disagrees otherwise "undertake", in the sense of > passing a vehicle going in the same direction, on it's left side would have > been included by now. I understand that some very much more recent words and > newer uses of words now appear in that renowned tome. Since it's an incorrect (outdated) dictionary, who cares? -- David Taylor
From: Conor on 19 Aug 2006 07:49 In article <4kn6e5Fd18mpU1(a)individual.net>, Ivor Jones says... > "Conor" <conor.turton(a)gmail.com> wrote in message > news:MPG.1f5008d9f55dea9a98d41f(a)news.individual.net > > In article <4km2s4Fcm9mqU1(a)individual.net>, Ivor Jones > > says... > > > > > I'm a UK resident not a European resident. There is no > > > such country as Europe. > > > > > Good. Does that mean you'll be sending a cheque to > > Brussels to repay all the money you've got out of them in > > both direct and indirect subsidies? > > Oy..! I'm not a farmer..! > It's not only farmers who get subsidies. Being in Wales, I'd be surprised if you're not in an area that's had a European economic aid grant. -- Conor "No trilogy should have more than four books" - Arthur C. Clarke
From: Conor on 19 Aug 2006 07:49 In article <4kn6qvFcrsi5U1(a)individual.net>, Ivor Jones says... > "Linz" <spam(a)lindsayendell.org.uk> wrote in message > news:ec4lm6$23ka$1(a)fiasco.xenopsyche.net > > Ivor Jones wrote: > > > "Linz" <spam(a)lindsayendell.org.uk> wrote in message > > > news:ec4hja$239d$1(a)fiasco.xenopsyche.net > > > > davek wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Other than looking at your speedo, how do you know > > > > you're doing 70mph? > > > > > > I can look at my GPS, which is more accurate than my > > > speedo. > > > > Thank you. (It was a serious question.) But how can you > > be sure it's /that/ accurate? > > It's generally accepted that most speedos are inaccurate, also that GPS is > far less so. Anyway, if you really want to know, I compared it with a > calibrated speedo as used in police cars. > Or a calibrated speedo as used in lorries. -- Conor "No trilogy should have more than four books" - Arthur C. Clarke
From: David Taylor on 19 Aug 2006 07:51
On 2006-08-19, Ivor Jones <ivor(a)despammed.invalid> wrote: > "Simon Finnigan" <SimonFinnigan(a)hotmail.com> wrote in > message news:4km75aFc466oU1(a)individual.net > > Language evolves. I understand that the word was not regarded as offensive > in Shakespeare's time, but we're not living then. Maybe "intercourse" will > be a swear word 400 years from now, I have no idea. I can only go by what > is generally regarded as offensive *now* and I'd be willing to bet more > people find gratuitous swearing offensive than don't. I really am quite curious to know how many people find certain combinations of letters "offensive", regardless of the meaning behind them... Then again, given the number that believe in a God based on a book written two thousand years ago, I suppose I might be quite disappointed in humanity if ever I find out. -- David Taylor |