Your channel to God is excellent.
On Nov 11, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
I apologize in advance for the didactic tone of what follows.
Yes, God IS speaking through me.
The closer one gets to the dictionary-making enterprise, the less one
is
inclined to use a dictionary to
Thus spake Nicholas Thompson circa 11/11/2008 07:28 PM:
When somebody says, I think we ought to keep close to the defnition they
are making a claim for the immutability of language, which, of course, is a
fairly silly claim.
These sorts of arguments remind me of original intent arguments
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Nicholas Thompson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Think about the crisis in telephone land that occured when dials were
replaced by keys.
I came home tonight to a crisis in our home telephone land. My daughter
says the phones are broken, everytime she tries to
