- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:34:27 -0400
- To: public-sw-meaning@w3.org
Le mardi, 23 sep 2003, à 00:02 America/Montreal, pat hayes a écrit : > Normal words aren't like that because they have no owner, obviously. > Although it is interesting that there has been a kind of cultural war > about something close to this issue in lexicography. Some dictionaries > are prescriptive, some descriptive: the differences reflect > deep-seated divergences about what it means for a word usage to be > 'correct'. correct and the right to interpret them as in a novel, in a poem, etc. When you definitely distort one of the understanding of a word to create images in the mind of someone else and that you do not necessary control what you have generated. -- Karl Dubost - http://www.w3.org/People/karl/ W3C Conformance Manager *** Be Strict To Be Cool ***
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