Jonah Thomas wrote:
>We can argue about what went wrong in the past, about
>which things were historical accident and which were
>things that we did wrong and which were failings in
>the language.
Well, *most* of us can argue about that. One of us
refuses to consider the historical accident hypothesis
(AKA the null hypothesis) and then argues that the
failings in the language hypothesis must be correct
on the grounds that there is no other hypothesis.