<Alan> wrote:
> (Victor Sack) wrote:
>
> ><Alan> wrote:
> >
> >> The reason they are pizzas is that people call them "pizza."
> >
> >Is it a good idea to follow the example of those people? The same
> >people also call raw, unformed minced/ground meat either "hamburger or
> >"sausage",
>
> absolutely not true.
What *exactly* is "absolutely not true"?
> Hamburger, yes. Sausage, no.
> Sausage, as we ALL know is spiced an flavored.
Did I say anything about spices and flavourings, or lack of them?
Besides, what "you ALL" know is not necessarily related to reality. You
do not really mean that no unspiced and unflavoured sausage exists?
What if you stuff unspiced, unseasoned minced meat in casings... won't
it become a sausage by definition? Not that it matters in this case...
You might also want to acquire a good dictionary (I believe I already
told you that). Here, for example, is what the Compact Oxford English
Dictionary (which is based on The OED) says:
*
sausage
*** noun 1 a short tube of raw minced meat encased in a skin, that is
grilled or fried before eating. 2 a tube of seasoned minced meat that is
cooked or preserved and eaten cold in slices. 3 a cylindrical object.
> > and they also call anyone learning in any kind of educational
> >institution "students", even if they are just schoolchildren.
>
> The word means that.
Only in America. Did you actually read my post? Did you comprehend it?
These are, by the way, rhetorical questions, so just re-read the
paragraph you quoted below - about the yet another example of the
general supplanting the particular in the American version of English.
Quotation from the same dictionary:
student
*** noun 1 a person studying at a university or other place of higher
education. 2 chiefly N. Amer. a school pupil. 3 before another noun
denoting someone who is studying to enter a particular profession: a
student nurse. 4 a person who takes a particular interest in a subject.
BTW, these are not just British examples, but international-English
ones. International Student Cards are issued only to university or
college students; International Scholar Cards are issued to school
pupils.
> >As I said many a time in similar cases, this is yet another example of
> >the general supplanting the particular in the American version of
> >English. Sooner or later, everything will be called "Alfredo", anyway.
> >
> Huh?
You mean you not only lack reading comprehension but also a rudimentary
sense of humour?
> >But then, I am also a language snob. :-)
>
> Language snot, not snob.
>
> Well, perhaps, both.
I told you already that getting defensive out of ignorance or inability
to appreciate differences in words or concepts does not reflect well on
you.
Victor