On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Matt Bachofen wrote:
|Dirk wrote:
| >>Then we'll have to learn a whole new
|lexicography to discern the differences of meaning between "Dude!",<<
|
|So true dude. And, in a language that is losing complexity, a single word
|can mean a thousand different things.
Actually, doesn't multiple meanings for words (overloading in
computer science lingo) INCREASE the complexity? ;-D
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