[ILUG-Social] grammar

[Paul Jakma]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Kenn Humborg wrote:

> make a design more generic", so I guess I'm pretty guilty of aiding
> and abetting this language corruption, too...

could be wrong, but there is no such thing as language corruption.
spoken languages are living, fluid things which change with time as
peoples use of the language changes.

hence the reason that dictionaries often add and drop words.

regards,
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