"rick" > wrote in message
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> "Kevan Smith" > wrote in message
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>> In article t>,
>> "rick" > wrote:
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>>> LOL I'm not giving MY defintion, fool. I'm giving the
>>> definition from the original guy who made up the word and
>>> religion. Anything else is a watered down version designed to
>>> make YOU feel better about doing nothing of substance.
>>> "...Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of
>>> exploitation of, and cruelty to, the animal kingdom, and includes
>>> a reverence for life. It applies to the practice of living on the
>>> products of the plant kingdom to the exclusion of flesh, fish,
>>> fowl, eggs, honey, animal milk and its derivatives, and
>>> encourages the use of alternatives for all commodities derived
>>> wholly or in part from animals..."
>>> Donald Watson, 1944
>>
>> That's one definition he accepted.
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> LOL NO, fool, that's the definition of the word he made up. He made-up
> the word, he get's to define it.

Well.. yes and no. Language evolves. Words change over time. Yes, Watson
made the word up, but that was over 60 years ago, and it has changed by
usage. "***" used to mean just "happy", but anyone who thinks that it means
exactly the same thing today that it meant in 1920 is either leading an
amazingly sheltered life or is being foolish. It's the same with "vegan".
We sticklers like to think that words are static, but they aren't. Watson
made that word up, but then he released it into the big, wide world of
language users. The only way to keep your made-up word from changing is to
never let anyone else know about it! Nowadays, when people want to harken
back to old definitions, they use terms like "classic" and "old school", so
maybe we could avoid confusion by saying "classic veganism" when referring
to Donald Watson's veganism. Just a thought.