Durova wrote:
Once people have started using a word in a certain
way you can't start
pretending that they haven't.
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We got people to stop citing WP:VAIN because it was impolite. This is far
more serious.
I suppose that the way that people use language is more serious than
citing a redirect page. Merging two redirect pages is hardly a big
deal, and I'm not about to waste a lot of time trying to figure out what
that was all about.
My point is that once a word is coined it's a part of the language. If
Pandora couldn't stuff her problems back into the box how can we?
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