On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 05:10:48AM -0700, David James wrote: > ps, if you don’t understand me, please research the meaning of “predate”
Come on, “predate” meaning prey has been in use for over half a century and is common in ornithological literure. If I tell you use of the homonym “date” to refer to the fruit of the palm predates its use to refer to time, are you going to use “date” only to refer to the fruit of the palm?
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