Lost a post there somewhere, sorry all. Point was "language" is a natural phenomenon that follows its own rules. It isn't something humankind invented, and it isn't something for which humankind's desires and rules should be expected to apply, any more than our expectations about gravity should be expected to apply. (For example - human "common sense" says that a 4 pound cannonball "should" fall four times faster than a one pound cannonball. Does it? And do we bitch about it? Language works the same way - according to its own rules, not according to what we think it should do.)