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From: James A. Donald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Stipulating arbitrary and unreasonable definitions breaks the 
> > connections, and people who employ definitions that lack sense
> > cannot make sense.  We are not free to give words any meaning we
> > choose.  They are embedded in history and in the world.

At 05:59 AM 3/12/00 -0500, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> Come on... the language grows because we give new meanings to the
> words. 

But we are not able to give any new meaning we choose, and still make
sense.

For example if the new word groups unlike things together, and
separates like things, it will merely generate error and confusion. 

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