> The observation that one, some, many, or all people use a linguistic > construct in an incorrect way do not change the fact that it is > incorrect.
It quite definitely does. Unlike, say, French or Icelandic, where there's an actual institution charged with the development of the language, the *only* definition of correctness in English is found in whether it conforms to everyday usage in the community in question. You can insist all you want that a cheater is someone appointed by the Crown to look after royal escheats, but (a) nobody cares that's what the word originally meant and (b) you'll be using the language incorrectly. (How did cheater get associated with dishonest people? Let's say the Crown's cheaters had a certain reputation...) _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
