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… the practicioners of the Humpty Dumpty school on this board.
Another commonly held misconception. We are not each individual Humpty Dumpties. Humpty Dumpty is the great mass of users of a language and he does determine what words mean. The alternative is the prescriptivist notion that if it works in practice but not in theory something must be wrong with the practice.
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