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Re: [jboske] Well, might as well burn the bridge now

I accept most of what you say.

At 04:28 AM 1/13/03 +1100, Nick Nicholas wrote:

> it precisely shows the problem of
> prescriptive modification of the language as erroneous prescriptions
> spread
> NOT because they make sense, but because "people who think more about
> these
> issues" said it should be so.

As I keep saying to you: all artificial languages evolve by little
cabals, since the communities are so small and the power of the
individual so great.


The solution is to make the community much larger. %^)


There is no such thing as natural evolution, which
ignores what "people who think more" come up with.
I think we have different ideas what would constitute natural evolution, but it isn't worth arguing now. 

lojbab

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