Message text written by Randall Young
>If your argument is that it is not properly part of the English
language, then I would argue that English is a living language, defined
by common usage, not by some dictionary. 50 years ago, the word
"transistor" was nowhere to be found, and the word "computer" meant a
person who did mathematics. We make up new words and change the meaning
of old ones all the time. The dictionaries cannot hope to keep up. In
fact, the entire concept of dictionary is a much newer invention than
English.
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I guess this is why the word "quicker" which used to be an adjective is
quickly becoming an adverb.
Dave (you have to take a foriegn language to learn English gramar) Massey
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