Getting way off the point (was Re: A/UX comments wanted)

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From: Matthew Shaver
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 02:02

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>Dictionaries are updated notoriously slowly; I would expect that any
>dictionary which has been edited in the last few years would include
>some mention of violence and political agenda in its definition, since
>that is the commonly accepted connotation today.  Ignoring this
>reality is silly.

To connote is to imply in addition to literal meaning.  The
connotation of a word depends on it's context.  The literal meaning of
his statement is that these people use terror.  Since we know that
murder is not involved it is an inacurate for someone to conote that
he meant that these people use guns and bombs.

Matthew D. Shaver

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