[Year 12 IT Apps] TJX Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison

[Robert]

Y not kontinu this offtopic isu? All languages gro over time.

"Common" usage? How common can some of it get? What really annoys me is that 
we are expected to accept changes to our language that are due to usage by 
the totally ignorant. I am more than happy to accept new words/usage that 
actually make sense, develop and extend our language.

Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
Ashwood and Traralgon
robert at yinnar.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Timmer-Arends" <timmer at melbpc.org.au>
To: "Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List" 
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Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 2:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] TJX Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison


> Hello Donna
>
> At the risk of continuinig down a totally off-topic direction, I'm reading 
> Kate Burridge's "Gift of the Gob", so I just can't resist:
> Common Usage becomes Correct Usage!
>
> Regards
> Robert T-A
> Brighton SC
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Donna Benjamin" <donna at cc.com.au>
> To: "Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List" 
> <itapps at edulists.com.au>
> Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 10:48 AM
> Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] TJX Hacker Gets 20 Years in Prison
>
>
>> On Sun, 2010-03-28 at 18:33 +1100, Mark KELLY wrote:
>>> I fear the battle is already lost; 99% of the
>>> population simply does not know or care about the difference: and they
>>> win.
>>
>> But you are IT teachers, teaching IT students, who surely should at
>> least be exposed to the notion there is a difference?
>>
>> Or should I just pull my head in?
>>
>> Common Usage is not always Correct Usage.
>>
>> I fort youse guise mite no that.
>>
>> -- 
>> Donna Benjamin - Executive Director
>> Creative Contingencies - http://cc.com.au
>> ph +61 3 9326 9985 - mob +61 418 310 414
>> open source - facilitation - web services
>>
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