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- From: mcochran@nyx.cs.du.edu (Mark A. Cochran)
- Subject: Re: Spoken Like a True ProLifer
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.051606.14025@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <C1C4nn.JB3@news.cso.uiuc.edu> parker@ehsn17.cen.uiuc.edu (Robert S. Parker) writes:
- >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. ;)
- >
- Don't worry Rob, it's just Kebbin trying to deny his error. He knows
- that he's wrong, but it's long been known that he is (for whatever
- eason) completely unable to ever admit it. Even in something as simple
- as word usage, an area in which he has often chided others to be more
- accurate, he prefers to hide behind rationalizations.
- You may notice that he dug himself into a nice deep hole on this one,
- and then promptly stopped replying to it.
-
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- Mark Cochran merlin@eddie.ee.vt.edu
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