Calian said: > > There is a point to this, which is that I DO feel that English can use a lot of help. It could be streamlined into what is actually USED. I'd like a dictionary that didn't have the name of a piece of harness used for draft horses in the 1200's. A "modern use in vocabulary" dictionary. > Save us! Let a coder streamline the the language? Yowch! That would be a terrifying trend. First one, then another would opitimise the original streamlining, and this would go on until we were left with nothing but true and false. Then some joker would come along and ascribe a symbol to each of the two remaining words and THEN what would we have?!! > As for Shakespear, I adore Shakespear, but the language has changed in many ways since then. I am sure thee knowest of what I speak, forsooth. > I believe it would properly be used as: *thou* knowest (since we're being pedants these days) ; ) > Perhaps these changes are good, perhaps not. I do know I have not read anything in Shakespear that describes what I do for a living. <chuckles> In a general way, a good coder (you let's say) is like a good playwright (oh, say Shakespeare). You both create intricate, smoothly running constructs using a complex language in a precise yet innovative manner.