Kestrel wrote:

> Common usage always throws a wrench into the cogs :) But
"official" stuff
> sticks around forever...

Not so.  After all, English no longer has case and is now totally 
order-dependent (and, in fact, ambiguous still for all that).

> Oh yeah... English is the great language thief :)

To be fair, I blame the Normans, you know, beating up the English and 
inflicting 10,000 new words.  Darned conquest.

>>>you're mean 
>>
>>I don't think I've ever discouraged that assessment of my character.
> 
> yeah, you and Fang... terrors both
> 
> here kitty kitty....

Must....resist..... 
Hard...to...look....fearsome....when....getting....scratched....behind...ear....
Am...talking....like...Kirk.... ;)

-N

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