In a message dated Fri, 16 Aug 2002 5:12:14 AM Eastern Standard Time, skzb at dreamcafe.com writes: > I am suggesting that English is already so well supplied with imprecise > formulations that adding more is absurd. Introducing changes that make it > easy and natural to be imprecise is not something I can > conceive as being a > positive change. Out of curiosity, Steve, are you desiring English to be a dead language, where it no longer evolves or adds new constructs and words at all? This is not a facetious question, but an honest one. Because that's the impression I'm starting to get, so I thought I'd ask and if it isn't what you want, you can clarify what it is you DO want and remove my confusion. Stacy