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