Wisdom, for me, includes no longer viewing such usage as "improper", but merely something more like "unexpected" or "different". I don't even mean that we stop calling it improper, but that we stop experiencing it as improper. :) Many do the first; fewer do the second.
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On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 10:45?AM David Koontz <
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That is some WIZE advice¡. Wish I could have heard it 20 yrs ago¡. I¡¯d not have banged mine head so much and raged against the improper use of a term!
On Jul 29, 2023, at 9:58 AM, George Dinwiddie <
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I've found that it useless to try to change existing usage, and confusing to ignore existing usage.
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