On Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:28:21 -0500, Cecil Moore
wrote:
There is a vast gulf between being descriptive and being proscriptive.
I didn't choose to quote the entire book
[Hecht rolls his eyes] That would have been futile because no portion
of it contains the proscription.

What has been offered makes as much sense as ascribing the value of
$100 to a button simply because you sewed it to a jacket and found
$100 in the pocket of that jacket. -Superstition-