From: utzoo!decvax!goutal
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: Surprising words
Article-I.D.: decvax.421
Posted: Sun Feb 13 01:50:11 1983
Received: Tue Feb 15 04:37:03 1983
References: brunix.1508

For what good it may do, I hereby post my vote in favour of retaining
the original meaning of "comprise" and of doing serious damage to those
who use it as if it were "compose".


I go by the general principle that any change in the language which
increases its power is good, while any change in the language which
DEcreases its power is bad.  For example, the creation of a word where
there wasn't one before is good;  the confusion of one word with another,
especially its opposite, is bad.  Maximize information;  minimize entropy.


-- Kenn