On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Joshua Kronengold wrote: #By contrast, -all- of us use the kind of influence Steve is describing #with our language -- and about everything else we are participatory #in creating; simply by what words we chose to create, learn, adapt, use, and #ignore. #<clashes silver bracelets together, reminiscent of a certain #Janet Kagan novel that everyone should read> On both paragraphs, agreed! <snapping forearm down, which would cause my bracelets to jangle if I had them> -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel