[conservativephilosopher-announce] New post at The Conservative Philosopher

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Hello,
	There is a new post on The Conservative Philosopher.  You can read it at:

http://www.conservativephilosopher.com/posts/1109875387.shtml

It begins:

	May a linguistic conservative coin new
	expressions? Of course. A conservative is not one
	opposed to change as such, or linguistic change as
	such. A conservative is one who is opposed to
	unnecessary, or idiotic, or deleterious changes
	–– the kind too many liberals love to
	introduce. An example of a change that was
	unnecessary was the renaming of the Western
	Division of the American Philosophical Association
	to ‘Central Division’ some years back. This
	rankled this curmudgeon for two reasons. First, the
	change was wholly unnecessary: given that there is
	a Pacific Division and a Western Division, one
	would have to...