>>6-7
I never saw the appeal of Taro. He was an imageboard loser who never really wrote about anything of interest to anyone but himself. Even Christopher's blog was more interesting, and he just wrote about Lojban.
At least Xarn writes about programming.
>>13
No, what I meant to say was that he was misusing the phrase "the exception that proves the rule". It is not intended to mean that an exception to a rule confirms it, that would be retarded. It's a legal maxim, established in English law in the early 17th century. Written, as law was in those days, in Latin:
>>14
I'm aware of that (well, I'm aware of the actual origin, which isn't English law but German, which is why the expression exists in many continental languages as well), but you're wrong to claim that as a misuse of English. It doesn't involve the syntax or semantics of the language at all.
>>16
It's neither nonsensical nor invalid English. It's just an arguable misuse of an expression. The choice of language is irrelevant to it.
That's like saying that incorrect implementation of quicksort in Haskell that's been floating around is invalid Haskell, when it clearly compiles fine and is even idiomatic code. It's just an incorrect implementation of quicksort.