Re: [OT] The stigma of schema

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Uche Ogbuji wrote:


> Since the last I checked, the XML community is not the respectable arbiter
> of word usage,


There is none.

> I shall personally continue to use "schemata" as the plural
> of "schema", and continue to argue that others should do so.


By all means.  That is the Way of the English language, where
orthography (or in this case, morphology) evolves by a Hartree-Fock
iterative process (consult your local physicist).

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