this is the point exactly. How do we know what anyone else means unless we use the one common source of the meaning of the words we use in our language?
I can see tristan really wishes the words mean something different to the rest of us, but it just hasn't happened yet. Linguistics and sociology aren't my chosen fields, otherwise I could pretend to be academic and have a wank off discussion about the topic with him. On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 14:27, T.J.Johnson wrote: > Tristan has a great point here. Besides, how do you know that the person who > posted originally about racism meant it the same way as webster did?! > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
