[Foundation-l] Stalking Article

Tue Jun 10 22:57:51 UTC 2008

Hoi,
The most important part of the Pandora story is that she finally opened the
box again, this brought hope in the world.
Thanks,
      GerardM

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> 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
>
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