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Re: An intuition pump

From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 16:34:27 -0400
To: public-sw-meaning@w3.org
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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.


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