Re: a pompous sentence

On 31 Aug 2005 01:18:55 -0700, "Ray" <raymondaliasapollyon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>Could anyone please paraphrase the following sentence for me?
>I think I understand the structure, but I cannot arrive at a sensible
>interpretation. What does "explode" mean here?
>
>Provided that no word, which a society shall give a sanction to, be
>afterwards antiquated and exploded, they may have liberty to receive
>whatever new ones they shall find occasion for.
>
Yes, horrible :-

A society may introduce whatever new words it wishes, so long as they do not
become out-moded, or their use is demonstrably incorrect.

"or their use is demonstrably incorrect" = "exploded"? Like exploding a myth?
Is that the phrase I'm scrabbling for?

How you can know whether a word will become outmoded when you introduce it, and
why that should prevent its use in the interim, is another question entirely.

>The following is my attempted paraphrase, which I still don't find
>sensible:
>
>If no word which a socity will approve of becomes out-dated later,
>socity may intrdouce new words.

I see you got butter on the keyboard again ... he smiled. (Why exactly /are/
emoticons unacceptable? Ho hum.)

>
>
>I would appreciate your help.
>
>Ray

--
Jim
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reproducing at bacterial levels, almost as an
infectious plague envelops its host"
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