[antlr-interest] (newbie problem)reference to rewrite element name without re...

Randall R Schulz rschulz at sonic.net
Mon Jul 9 17:30:21 PDT 2007


On Monday 09 July 2007 17:14, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
>  Randall R Schulz said the following on 10/07/2007 10:02 AM:
> On Monday 09 July 2007 16:56, Jonathan Thomas wrote:
>
> ...
>
>  'Dissing it' is one of those shuddering things creeping into our
> vocab from American music ...

"Diss" is simply a shortening of "disrespect." It's a common mode of 
linguistic evolution.

Language is what people speak, not what grammarians or social 
conservatives (more realistically though of as the atavistic) 
prescribe.


>  Cheers,
>  JT.


Randall Schulz


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