> > > Comsiderting who requested the clarification of
> > > "all" in the first place
> > > (Peter), I'd say that he, at least, should know.
> >
> > Well, true. But this is the newbies list, emails
> to it
> > are addressed to all, not to one person in
> particular,
> > and possibly as a result he, like me, expected
> English
> > to be used, not cliquey in-jokes.
>
> You mean like "Generally Accepted Glorantha" or
> "Gregged"?:)
Neither of those could be mistaken for ordinary
English, now could they? Come on, deliberately missing
the point doesn't help. "All" is an English word, and
unless you know otherwise there's no reason to think
it might have a different meaning. So is "book" -
should we look that one up to see if it's been
redefined? "We"? Where does it stop? Check out every
word of everyday English, or just those that are
obviously specific to this subject?
Come on, is it so hard to simply write English in the
first place?
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