Wait a sec, there, Echidna-Originally posted by echidna@28 May 2003 - 11:20
i fail to see what limitation of speech is caused by the nuance of english it's just a lot more difficult to ensure congruent comprehension. but provides for much humour and richness through metaphor and subtext
You "fail to see what limitation"?
How is language to survive (as it indeed must), then?
Do you propose the dictionary be available by subscription, due to it's "fluidity"?
Are you shilling for the U.S. Postal Service?
The "humour and richness" you laud accrues to language through the passage of time, not via the mal-informed, agenda-serving whims of those who would do well to study the various shadings (nuance!already available to those who love, respect, and practice the correct use of words.
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