RE: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would.

["Sarah Stegall" <sstegall -at- bivio -dot- net>]

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Behalf Of Stuart Burnfield
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 6:08 PM
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Subject: Re: I had say it because I was afraid no one else would.

Merriam-Webster has an entry for "fraudster", but even if 
it were a made-up word, your company has every right to 
invent it 

No, it does not. The English language does not belong to one company, it
belongs to all of us. No one person or body of persons has the right to
arbitrarily re-define words, make up words, or change words. Nothing,
and I mean NOTHING that I have encountered in more than a dozen years in
this business pisses me off more than the arrogance of marketing
departments that freely and oblivously play hob with a thousand year old
language--of which they are, largely, ignorant.

I have risked my job more than once, refusing point blank to mangle my
native tongue in order to suit the whims of a marketing director who
can't even spell. He does not have the right to re-configure this
language. If anyone does, poets do. Nobody else.

Don't bother arguing with me on this point. On anything else, we can
agree to disagree, but on this one I am not rational.

Sarah
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