Posted by Travis Newbury on 09/28/05 19:34

Els wrote:
> I still wouldn't say 'always' if I meant 98% of the time.
> I'd say something weird like 'almost always', or 'virtually always'.

Yea, I would too, but you have to agree that sometimes the true meaning
of a word, and the context it is used are many times different.
Another example "HTML programming" Yes we all know HTML is not a
programming language, but when someone says "I programmed a webpag", we
all really know what he/she is saying.

> <nitpick> Isn't it verbatim with an 'i'? </> ;-)

Only for the Dutch...

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