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Subject:Re: Changing our Language From:David Ibbetson <ibbetson -at- IDIRECT -dot- COM> Date:Sun, 17 Dec 1995 13:39:30 -0500
>It is our professional obligation to follow these rules in order to make our
>communication clear. If language needs to change, leave it to the academics who
>have changed language in the past to do so.
French is defined by the Academie Francaise. <no accents available> English
is defined by its users.
My grandfather, who was born in Tsarist Russia, but educated in England,
used to say "Dictionaries record what I write."
David (idiot boy) Ibbetson
Fantastic First Footing
Spiffing Saturnalia
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukah
Yummy Yule
1995
