Re: I have an opinion!

David Peterson wrote:
> No one person can say whether a conjunction has become accepted; it depends
> on what most English speakers think.  Most English speakers do NOT have
> "conlang", "auxlang", "compsci", "polisci", and many not "scifi".  Nearly
> everyone has "e-mail", and it's already become a verb.  Just because some
> condensions were formed the same way doesn't mean they have equal billing,
> says I.
Still, I don't see the logic in accepting "e-mail" but not "conlang".
It would be ridiculous, ESPECIALLY on this list, to use "constructed
languages" and "auxiliary languages".  Maybe when speaking to people who
aren't familiar with the terms.

Besides, this whole thing was just out of the blue.  It's not like we
were in a thread about abbreviations, you just suddenly burst out with a
pet peeve of yours, criticizing everyone who uses those abbreviations.
Why?

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