Lee said:

>Right.  Youi get your definitions from the voices in your head, right?

There's a voice in my head that tells me that you just misread another one
of my posts.

>Definitions are culture specific, as are dictionsries.  Funny how that
works out.<

No, *usage* is culture specific. Nothing funny about it. Nothing logical
about it either. It just 'happens'.

Have a look at all those entries in dictionaries where it says an 'obs.' -
as in obsolete - next to the explanation. It does not mean that someone in
the past came up with an incorrect 'definition'. It simply means: this word
is not used (much) anymore. 

If that process wasn't at work *all* the time, the French and the English
would all be speaking German today (for some reason you seem to be quite
fond of this line, so I thought I'd include it here to illustrate the
point). Of course we'll hear from Bjoern now, who'll explain that we'd
really just be speaking an obscure Danish dialect. 

M