[Foundation-l] Stalking Article

Tue Jun 10 22:32:50 UTC 2008

Durova wrote:
>  Once people have started using a word in a certain way you can't start
> pretending that they haven't.
> ----
> We got people to stop citing WP:VAIN because it was impolite.  This is far
> more serious.
I suppose that the way that people use language is more serious than 
citing a redirect page.  Merging two redirect pages is hardly a big 
deal, and I'm not about to waste a lot of time trying to figure out what 
that was all about.

My point is that once a word is coined it's a part of the language.  If 
Pandora couldn't stuff her problems back into the box how can we?

Ec