At 04:41 PM 06-10-99 -0700, Ryan Honeyman wrote:
>Still, you realize this is a conversation of semantics, thus
>it really has no room for argument. I say tomato, you say
>tomatoe. Let it be, was my point.
The point is that it's not you and me and the other intelligent folks here
who know the difference. It's the boneheads who can't read Webster's, hear
"kiting" and associate it with bad behavior because that's the only context
they know.
The word is tainted by its recent, widespread usage in a negative context.
Bob