Cecil Moore wrote:

If a billion people called a cat a lion, it would be a
lion by definition. Incidentally, a lion *is* a cat.
From Webster's: "cat - any animal of the family that
includes domestic cats, lions, tigers, and leopards."

But common usage is that "cat" means those thing usually found
shredding drapes when they aren't hanging out on the window sill
just as common usage is that theory...

So which definition do you use for a given word Cecil, the common,
usually abiguous one, the precise, context based one, or whichever
leads to the most semantic games?

--
Jim Pennino

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