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#111
10-30-2004, 04:00 PM
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Nationality===Race??? What do they teach you over there in Britain...
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#112
10-30-2004, 08:47 PM
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Re: How cynical do you need to be to feel good in the morning?
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Yeah, I understand that race has become the commonly used term for ethnicity, but that doesn't mean that's its correct definition. [/ QUOTE ] I'm afraid it does. The only measure of 'correctness' in language is the frequency of use. Dictionaries long ago gave up on prescriptiveness, and now aspire simply to describe usages that exist. Language is arbitrary.
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#113
10-30-2004, 10:00 PM
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Re: How cynical do you need to be to feel good in the morning?
Some do and some don't. The quality of dictionaries is often thought of as at least in some part related to how hastily they infuse fads and trends in language into their content without distinction. In some fields, certain dictionaries are regarded as little more than popularity contests, with standards to low to aid in the preparation of acceptable documents.
ir usage is unacceptable in the preparation of
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#114
10-31-2004, 02:09 AM
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Re: How cynical do you need to be to feel good in the morning?
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Some do and some don't. The quality of dictionaries is often thought of as at least in some part related to how hastily they infuse fads and trends in language into their content without distinction. In some fields, certain dictionaries are regarded as little more than popularity contests, with standards to low to aid in the preparation of acceptable documents. ir usage is unacceptable in the preparation of [/ QUOTE ] Dunno what happened to the 2nd paragraph, but the first is more riddled with qualifiers than this year's WSOP.
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#115
10-31-2004, 05:56 PM
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Re: How cynical do you need to be to feel good in the morning?
That thing got pushed down and I forgot to delete it.
Yeah, standards are different in different fields and among different people. But that doesn't mean that it's universally accepted that there are none.
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#116
11-01-2004, 05:17 PM
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Re: How cynical do you need to be to feel good in the morning?
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Making a negative generalisation about someone due to their nationality is racist. [/ QUOTE ] You Brits are all idiots. And no, I'm not a racist.
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