Re: Posting errors on Google [was: sneak preview - BACKUP/REPAIR]


Hi Steven! How art thou?

Steven M. Schweda wrote:
From: "AEF" <spamsink2001@xxxxxxxxx>

I understand your point of view re the word 'data', but words evolve:
[...] Usage Panel [...]

Yeah, yeah. And I suppose that if all your friends jumped off a
cliff, then you'd do it, too, because then it would be the right thing
to do.

1.) I said I tended to agree with the Buckley essay in the American
Heritage dictionary (second college edition) which frowns upon instant
acceptance of new words just because they're used a lot. The words must
fight their way to acceptability by language experts and the like. But
words have to, and have, evolved. It just shouldn't get out of control,
as in point number 2:

2.) Many, and I mean MANY, of my co-workers have picked up (or never
learned better) the awful habit of saying things like "should have
went" and "should have ran" and the like. Boy does that sound awful!!!
I'm trying very hard not to pick it up myself but I hear it almost
every day! Sometimes when I hear "should have went" I shout out 'GONE'!
I don't wish to jump off the cliff just because they all do every day,
but there are so many doing this that they're creating a strong wind!

[...] OTOH, I can't believe some publishers
still hypenate 'email', but I'll take that as a "variant".

"E-mail" is hyphenated to tell the reader that it's pronounced
"ee-mail", rather than "em-ail". Like most punctuation, one can live
without it, but it's nice to have. Of course, I miss the good old days,
when "today" was "to-day".

But this is the wrong forum for this particular(ly) pointless
argument.

Well, yeah, except it's been a little dull here lately as far as real
technical VMS goes (software issues, anyway).


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382 South Warwick Street sms@antinode-org
Saint Paul MN 55105-2547

AEF

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