On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:20:38 +0000 (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bent C Dalager) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >George Neuner <gneuner2/@comcast.net> wrote: >>On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:36:40 +0000 (UTC), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bent C >>Dalager) wrote: >> >>> >>>Only if you're being exceedingly pedantic and probably not even >>>then. Webster 1913 lists, among other meanings, >>> >>>Free >>>(...) >>>"Liberated, by arriving at a certain age, from the control >>>of parents, guardian, or master." >>> >>>The point presumably being that having been "liberated", you are now >>>"free". >> >> (...) >> >>The English language has degenerated significantly in the last 30 >>years. >> (...) >> >>Dictionaries used to be the arbiters of the language - any word or >>meaning of a word not found in the dictionary was considered a >>colloquial (slang) use. Since the 1980's, an entry in the dictionary >>has become little more than evidence of popularity as the major >>dictionaries (OED, Webster, Cambridge, etc.) will now consider any >>word they can find used in print. > >Apparantly, you missed the part where I referred to the 1913 edition >of Webster. I have kept it in the quoted text above for your >convenience. I can assure you that 1913 is both more than 30 years ago >/and/ it is before 1980, in case that was in doubt. > >Cheers > Bent D I didn't miss it. Your post was just an opportunity to rant. George -- for email reply remove "/" from address -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
