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W. E. Perry scripsit: > > Uhhh, no. You can't mandate intent through syntax. > > Preaching to the choir. I argue that constantly, often to little effect. You can't mandate intent at all, in fact. As good old Blackstone tells us, the devil himself knoweth not the mind of man. The most you can do is punish or reward behavior that we have agreed that the reasonable man will interpret as compelling evidence of intent, the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace (or dis-grace), in fact. -- First known example of political correctness: John Cowan "After Nurhachi had united all the other http://www.reutershealth.com Jurchen tribes under the leadership of the http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Manchus, his successor Abahai (1592-1643) jcowan@r... issued an order that the name Jurchen should --S. Robert Ramsey, be banned, and from then on, they were all _The Languages of China_ to be called Manchus."
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