"nmp" wrote in message
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Op Sat, 20 Aug 2005 20:23:27 +0000, schreef Rand Simberg:

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 19:06:32 +0200, in a place far, far away, nmp
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:



The others with the narrow viewpoint, do they include the writers of
dictionaries and the people who named the US Space Shuttle, Space
Shuttle?

Yes, if they demand that all space vehicles in the future be called
"shuttles."

Zeurpiet.

Nobody is demanding anything. It's just practical to call a space shuttle
a space shuttle, especially if said vehicle is indeed performing shuttle
services in space.

Hallo nmp,

;-) paarlen voor de zwijnen...

hij wil het niet begrijpen (hij begrijpt het heus wel).

groeten,

Rene