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Subject: Re: Things that Longhorn seems to be doing right
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 23:06:24 +0100
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:

>> No. don't you think I look things up in a dictionary before I
>> write a definition?
>> 
>> The Webster's "New Collegiate Dictionary", 150th Anniversary
>> Edition clearly  states;
>> 
>> 1. EXAMPLE, PATTERN;esp: an outstandingly clear or typical
>> example or archetype.
>
> The current prevailing paradigm is that words mean what convention says they
> mean, not what the dictionary says.
>
> You got as much chance of reclaiming that word as you do "hacker". ;)

Well, hacker still has the right meaning among hackers.  Maybe
paradigm survives in some group, as well, though I'm not sure where.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
mru@kth.se

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