[PLUG] Think I've been cracked

[Paul Johnson]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 09:51 am, Rich Burroughs wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
> 
> > That doesn't make the usage any more correct, though.
> 
> Well, if you write the dictionary, you can make "correct" anything you 
> want it to be :)

The jargon definitions in my wiki all come from The Jargon File, 
http://www.jargon.org/ , maintained by ESR.

> But that's the usage. If the vast majority of people  
> use it that way, then perhaps the people hanging on to their own 
> dictionary definition are the ones not being correct, or realistic.

ESR wouldn't have worded it the way he did if it wasn't live usage.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.dyndns.org
http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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