[Info-vax] HP stopping VMS paper documentation ?

AEF spamsink2001 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 16 23:02:02 EST 2011


On Dec 16, 4:19 pm, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 12/16/2011 9:23 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
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> > In article<d99b6905-8568-44d6-8930-73a3a86d7... at m7g2000vbc.googlegroups.com>, AEF<spamsink2... at yahoo.com>  writes:
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> >> Merriam Webster.
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> >> Why not?
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> >> What would you recommend?
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> >     Check again.  Webster came up with a style of dictionary, and just
> >     about all publishers use it.
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> >     On the cover page of the dictionary you can find out who actually
> >     published it.  They may not actually be Merriam Webster.  And they
> >     are responsible for the content.
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> >     Sometimes the publisher will include a discussion of what
> >     self-proclaimed experts wrote the content.  Sometimes they just hack
> >     something togther that they can sell, and the content is amaizingly
> >     poor.
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> >     And even M-W is wrong sometimes.
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> Some dictionaries include deliberate errors for the purpose of proving
> Copyright infringement!

Say what? Can you give some examples?

AEF



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