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- From: parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- References: <1993Jan13.031349.8910@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan14.045239.1911@rotag.mi.org> <1993Jan15.012942.10882@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan16.215258.14511@rotag.mi.org>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:40:35 GMT
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- kevin@rotag.mi.org (Kevin Darcy) writes:
-
- [about "schizophrenia" (in common usage) ?= "MPD" (the proper medical term)]
-
- >I never said "schizophrenia" was "medically" correct, Mark. Are you such
- >a medico-geek that you can't see the rest of the world that exists outside
- >of the medical realm? According to the OED, "schizophrenia" has, in general
- >usage, the meaning I gave it. T.S. Eliot and George Orwell have used it in
- >the same way I did. It may be "incorrect" in Stethoscope-Land, Mark, but
- >the word can have a different meaning in other contexts.
-
- In other words, everyone is using it wrong, including the compilers of the
- OED. ;)
- Actually, dictionaries describe the way the words *are* used, not the way they
- *should* be used, so OED is not necessarily at fault. ;)
-
- > - Kevin
-
- -Rob
-