Oh come on, people. The written form of a language has no bearing on the development of the spoken form. These alternative spellings contain...
I like my women how I like my jokes - funny.
Since always. Geez - how do YOU think language is formed? That Dark Elf's ancestors originally had a big meeting and decided that "stol" sounded...
Because the meaning and validity of words is determined by convention. Or, to put it another way - why not?
I like my women how I like my cars - good handling around curves and always ready for a ride.
I like my coffee how I like my women - cheap, spilling out at the top, and keeping me up all night.
Mr Scales is right in so far as when language was first being formed from a series of grunts, the speakers would have made great use of...
It does break causality because you end up knowing about something before it's happened, and could therefore change the event - e.g. by not...
An elementary school teacher asked her class to say a sentence beginning with "I". Sally stood up and said "I like dressing up". "Very good,...
That's how he thinks languages are made. In wayne-scales' mind, everything is reduced to a philosophical logic problem. I can just imagine him...
Hindsight. It NEVER goes out of fashion. I wasn't using any reasoning, I was just telling you how dictionaries work. Your new word would mean...
Yes, you could. And if they catch on they'd end up in the dictionary. And the etymology would be recorded as "wayne-scales made this up in order...
Clearly if Grossenschwamm records hundreds of dreams and none of them accurately predict the future then we can draw a conclusion from that. Even...
There once was a fellow called Gross, Whose poems were quite grandiose. The rhymes were okay, But the subject was gay, And the meter was not...
Quite. That's what a dictionary is. A record of the language as spoken by the people. Modern people, that is - not ones who still use Latin.
It doesn't break causality because it becomes my present during the duration of my dream, and I don't receive any information regarding what leads...
Yes, but a dictionary is a snapshot of the current state of a language. So if everyone uses the word homogenous in a particular way, that's how...
They're analogous in that they are both violations of the laws of physics. You probably don't mean that in the way that I understand it....
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I imagine the dictionary lists them as synonyms because most people say homogenous when they mean homogeneous. I certainly do.
Separate names with a comma.
