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Humpty Dumpty: "A Word Means Just What I Choose It To Mean."
Do any other Salon readers sense the irony that the same legislators who perenially rail against regulation are the same ones who have tried to regulate choice out of existence?
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master—that's all." – from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll