Re: [chat] Dumbest question ever.

[Ben Leslie <benno@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Sean Neakums wrote:

> >>>>> "JW" == Jamie Wilkinson <jaq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>     JW> This one time, at band camp, Sean Neakums wrote:
>     >> Except that you all made the same mistake everyone else makes:
>     >> it's e-mail, not ``email'', which is a type of enamelling.
> 
>     JW> That's not a mistake, that's deliberate.
> 
> And wilful ignorance is *so* redeeming.
> 
>     JW> See Donald Knuth's notes at the bottom of
>     JW> http://sunburn.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html
> 
> I read that note some years ago; Knuth was as wrong about it then as
> he is now.  Past mistakes should be learned from and corrected, not
> mindlessly propragated into the future.

Language evolves. Who cares?

Benno