Todd Walton wrote:
> On 6/22/05, John H. Robinson, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > False. A meteor is *light* associated with a meteoroid being heated by
> > the atmoshpere.
> 
> Yes, yes.  But this is English!  Isn't it so wonderful that anyone can
> define anything any way they please, and as long as, well..  you know
> what I mean.

So Humpty Dumpty taught me once.

  "When I use a word," Humpry Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,
  "it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less."
  Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 6.

-john


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