ANSTHRLD - Grant question

[Timothy A. McDaniel]

Tadhg wrote:
> It doesn't matter a damn what the people who created the order
> intended, past about the first two or three awards; what matters is
> how the order operates today -- and that makes the whole mythology
> behind it just that: mythology.

What wooly-headed descriptionist mush.  Standards *do* matter on their
own, and they offer the hope of a restoration (or Renaissance or
Reformation, if you will) to a better-ordered past.

Daniel "save the prescriptionist dictionaries!" de Lincolia
(ohhhhh, that felt sinfully good)
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