esp. for Alex...was: Still More Snot chapter 2....The Snot Report..... 533
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, alexy You made reference to that (dictionaries) a few cycles back... It...
On Wed, 23 Mar 2005, alexy
Oh, look everyone, Alex declares: i) the dictionary is the ultimate authority on all words (James Joyce and others need to be subject to 'revisionism' like in the Soviet Union), ii) Alex gets to decide on all word usage, and iii) artistic license is illegal.
Wrong....people need to look at how other people use words, too, not look themselves in the mirror and say: I'm right, he's wrong.
(Makes sense to me--after all, when I need an explanation of how
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, alexy I can tell from both what you DO talk about and what...
Well, after reading a fair bit of your screeds, I'm not surprized. I hope
I got a better idea: follow my advice (unlike many but not all others here on src) and try not beathing your head against the wall....
The danger of this is that I have to remember
Boy are you off the base today. Sure seems to me we have Repubs-Dems (each who sees the other party as bad), worlds-countries-peoples (Arabs-jews, India-Pakistan, No. Korea-S.Korea, China-Taiwan, and many others) who have pretty strong black-white issues. Even its the White House vs. a list of "enemies."
and most are
Seems to me, its the other way around.
So I have to be careful not to buttume that others are always
Nah, you don't have to be careful. Um...were you careful at one time in the past? Or, are you making a promise or threat about the future?