On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Steven Brust wrote: > 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. I think this kind of answers itself, as "good" and "bad" are rather subjective and/or personal terms. By which I mean; what _I_ think is good may be bad to Mr. X down the street. So I think it has to be a personal decision, as I hesitate to think that there will EVER be a universal agreement on what is good/bad. As long as we don't try and tell others what is good/bad, what does it matter? If we individually think that a new word is bad or inadequate, we can choose not to use it. And if someone asks, just say "I don't particularly care for that word, so I use alternatives" *shrug* And, maybe if you support your case well, others can be turned and the word will eventually be phased out. But I think that approach will have more of a positive effect than an all-out aggressive attack. ****** NyteMuse "Call her life unnatural, feel her undead breath. Color her black for sorcery, color her gray for death." AIM: NyteMuse139 / ICQ: #21966269 (NyteMuse) MSN: NyteMuse / Yahoo!ID: NyteMuse http://www.crowfire.com