• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• To: Colin Muller <colin@d...>
• Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 23:41:26 -0400 (EDT)

Colin Muller scripsit:

> Language is yours: use it in any way that communicates, or even, if it
> will achieve your end, in ways that don't.

I fully agree.

> Oh - and don't take a lexicographer's word on anything :-)

For better or worse, people who want to be consistent must have a source of
consistency, and in practice a dictionary provides that, because it is
a concise summary of past practice.

-- 
John Cowan                                   cowan@c...
One art/there is/no less/no more/All things/to do/with sparks/galore
	--Douglas Hofstadter

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