Re: Sacred tangent (was Re: just checking...)
Mike Findlay <[email protected]>
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Have fun in your echo chamber. Mike F. ________________________________ From: Peter T. Chattaway <[email protected]> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, January 14, 2011 1:23:24 AM Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] Sacred tangent (was Re: just checking...) On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Mike Findlay wrote: > Really, Peter, are you suggesting that the only proper usage of words is with >their primary definition? I am suggesting that primary definitions overshadow all the derivative definitions. Because, y'know, they generally do. Yeah, yeah, every now and then we get a word like "bad" which is so, *so* old that everyone has forgotten what it originally meant, hundreds and hundreds of years ago. But that ain't the case here. The primary definition is still used all the time, and any use of the derivative definitions will inevitably hark back to that primary definition. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot