Re: basic question: going back to dired

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 15:56, Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Oh, I don't think I agree with that sort of lowest-common-denominator
> linguistic relativism at all! That sort of attitude, combined with
> neutral drift over time will result in a terrible, ugly, language with
> no accuracy or etymological coherency whatsoever!

Not linguistic relativism, but descriptivism against prescriptivism.
I'm firmly in the descriptivist side. I don't think a spoken, live
language can be "ugly", and accuracy and etymological coherency are
two ways of say stagnation.

  Juanma