Klarinet Archive - Posting 000344.txt from 2004/03

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@------.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] For Rien
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:33:49 -0500

At 07:23 AM 3/5/2004 -0500, Nancy E. Buckman wrote:
(I wrote:)
Just for the record, from WHAT dictionary do you cite?

(Nancy wrote:)
>Why?

For all we can tell, you made the dictionary entry up out of thin air, not
that I am accusing you of that. But if you are going to all the trouble of
quoting, at least state the reference. If it was from the "Official Gay
Person's Dictionary" or the paperback "Webster" dictionary you get for 99
cents at K-mart or something I might view the definition as somewhat less
authoritative than if it were the "Oxford English Dictionary." It might
also be pointed out that dictionaries do not tell us what a word SHOULD
mean; only what it has meant in the past. It may also keep abreast of
current usage, as yours did. Your dictionary citation included the word
"marriage" as part of the larger phrase "same-sex marriage" but defined
that term separately, so I did not see it as especially supportive of your
argument.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!