14th January 2003, 6:03 AM
First off, you use Australian English, where you say stuff like "Good on ya mate", which makes NO sense, so what you think it means doesn't matter :D.
Second off, I never said that this applies to EVERYTHING, just language. "This" is reffering to popular opinion defining what is correct. Language is the one thing where that actually does matter. It's only used "incorrectly" until a significant number start using it that way. Once the majority use the word that way, bam, that's the definition.
Second off, I never said that this applies to EVERYTHING, just language. "This" is reffering to popular opinion defining what is correct. Language is the one thing where that actually does matter. It's only used "incorrectly" until a significant number start using it that way. Once the majority use the word that way, bam, that's the definition.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)