At 10:02 AM 8/16/2002 -0400, Starshadw at aol.com wrote: >Who gets to decide what is a good change and what is a bad change?? Excellent question! My own answer is: anyone who cares enough to argue about it. >Where is this "line" to be drawn, or will it be completely arbitrary and >there will be no guidelines?? No, there will be no guidelines--just a lot of us doing what we've been doing: arguing each case on its merits. All of which will, at best, accomplish little, but *might* accomplish something. Oh--and improving education of basic language skills would help some, I think. >Essentially, you seem to be saying that you know better, and so anyone who >dares step off the same use of language path that you're on is nasty, >ignorant, or somehow defective. That's pretty close. But I expect them to feel the same way about the changes I like that they don't, and to argue with me about them. :-)