Terry,

>It's just that there was a bit of a flame going on with you two Germans and a Brit yesterday :-)

/~=

>>
>>>But I've already gone on about this way back.
>>
>>So why repeat?
>
>As an example of what happens when people get lazy about the language and start changing meanings.

This is the way the world goes. Do you use you or thou? ::)

>>Just kidding. I know nobody who use those phrases except scientists.
>
>And we're all scientists of a sort here, right? Yet very few of US use the expression correctly.

Hm not in the sence that a scientist is a researchers doing his work on a theoretical base.
I'm not very intersted on computer scientists. I compare informatics with a penman.


>Anyway, you're not so much affected by this - being sheltered with your structured German language.

No, we have the same type of people that torture the language with ther half minded words.
A plague that use english (or stuff they think is) on every place.

Agnes