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To: Kaslin

At times I think of the language as existing in a kind of competitive marketplace where words compete for survival. This is how “internet” ( no capital letter) replaced the “world wide web”. I don’t know anyone who recently bought an “auto” but the insurance company I most recently worked for offered coverage for both “home and auto” . Perhaps there is some peaceful coexistence possible in some realms.

Eventually the language decides what it wants to use and consigns the rest to crossword puzzles.


8 posted on 09/04/2014 8:42:19 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (When I first read it, " Atlas Shrugged" was fictional)
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To: muir_redwoods

And words can change meaning. The word gay is no longer ever used according to the dictionary definition. Today gay means homosexual and nothing else.


9 posted on 09/04/2014 8:44:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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