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Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard"

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Flng Fck <nothanks@invalid.invalid> wrote on 04 Apr 2019 in 
comp.lang.javascript:

> Il 03/04/2019 18:41, Evertjan. ha scritto:
>>>> .. just because words and idioms are not DEFINED,
>>>> as dictionaries [and grammars] are descriptive, NOT prescriptive.
>>>>
>>>> AND even if so, quod non,
>>>>
>>>> .. I would not have expected it, or would expect the other party to
>>>> have done so, but would have expected sound arguments for such
>>>> expectations.
>>> Your ignorance is showing.
>> 1 Just saying something does not make it so,
>> there is no DEFINITION involved in word and idiom interpretation.
>>
>>
> He's right, as Oxford English shows:
> 
> 
> *"How do you know what the definition of a word is?*
> 
> It's all about the context.

Indeed, quite so. 

Definitions, however, do not change with context.

> Often we will have an instinct for what a 
> word means because we all use it or it's familiar, but many times we are 
> defining a word that is unfamiliar. Because we only include words for 
> which our lexicographers can find evidence, it is this evidence which is 
> crucial in helping us pin down the best and most precise definition for 
> a word."
> 
> https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/news-and-press/oxford-dictionaries-faq

Which, in casu strictu, is nonsense, because dictionaries are descriptive, 
they describe the usage of a word, and the word "definition" is 
prescriptive.

So words, as described in dictionaries, do not have definitions, the 
description of a word can even describe "wrong" usage, in the sense that 
does not match and even is in contradiction with earlier use or reality.

I submit the use of "definition" by oxforddictionaries.com is "wrong" in 
this sense.

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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  Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-04-01 03:32 -0700
    Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-04-01 15:31 +0200
      Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-04-01 09:09 -0700
        Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-04-01 23:38 +0200
          Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" Jonas Thörnvall <jonas.thornvall@gmail.com> - 2019-04-02 11:07 -0700
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              Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" "Mark-" <nospam@mapson.xyz> - 2019-04-03 00:35 +0000
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                Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" "Mark-" <nospam@mapson.xyz> - 2019-04-03 13:17 +0000
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                Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" "Mark-" <nospam@mapson.xyz> - 2019-04-03 16:52 +0000
                Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-04-03 22:54 +0200
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                Re: onMidiSuccess, "fake a midiMessage with mouse and charkeys", create a midiMessage object using mouse or keyboard" Flng Fck <nothanks@invalid.invalid> - 2019-04-04 08:35 +0200
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