election details *PLEASE READ*

Ken Causey ken at kencausey.com
Wed Feb 21 22:35:42 UTC 2007


_The Meaning of Everything_ by Simon Winchester is a very interesting
read (actually I listened to it recently while doing some renovation
work) and this subject was an important one early in the history of the
OED and even earlier English dictonaries (to be descriptive and not
prescriptive).

Ken

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 23:12 +0100, Roel Wuyts wrote:
> Wauw, you learn something new every day. Amazing. Anarchy rules :-)  
> Turns out quite ok :-)
> 
> On 21 Feb 2007, at 21 February/23:03, tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 21-Feb-07, at 1:55 PM, Roel Wuyts wrote:
> >
> >> And I think that there is at least somebody defining the English  
> >> language, no ? Really ?!
> > Nope. The Oxford English Dictionary is a *descriptive* authority,  
> > not a *prescriptive* one. We steal from everyone and everywhen;  
> > which is why we rule the universe. <whisperings offstage> Ah;  
> > sorry, wrong date. "why we *will* rule the universe!"
> >
> >
> > tim
> > --
> > tim Rowledge; tim at rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim
> > Strange OpCodes: RG: Read inter-record Gap

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