On Sat, 4 Mar 2000, Marcel Popescu wrote:
> EVERYONE uses his own definitions when he speaks / writes. A dictionary does
> not "define" words, it just indicates the most common ones.
No, normaly people use words within a reasonable range of commen
expectations. It's one of the reasons people now can read books in their
native tongue that were written hundreds if not thousands (e.g. Japanese)
of years ago. They also, if they have two halves of a clue to rub
together, let the receiver know they are using non-standard aspects.
Further, your 'definition' of the word isn't even close enough for
government work.
A dictionary gives one the commenly acceptable meanings of a word. If you
don't use that way then any confusion is YOUR responsibility to resolve.
If you want to communicate and carry on a dialog it's your repsonsiblity
to meet the other participants half-way. This means not playing word
games.
Further, this is a reasonably technical discussion and despite your claim
to the contrary most of these terms have very tight definitions. To
re-define those definitions without warning make any argument you make
bogus.
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