Retroactive - before a law goes into effect

[Laurence Horn]

On Nov 10, 2012, at 3:13 PM, Benjamin Barrett wrote:

> On Nov 10, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Benjamin Barrett <gogaku at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>> the law is being applied retroactively and it hasn't even taken effect yet, which seems to be a slight stretch of the normal use.
>>
>> Benjamin, unless you're in your seventies - or should that be, "your
>> in you're seventies"? - getting  crotchety about language-change in
>> progress is not permitted! ;-)
>
> I went back and forth on this several times. I think your analysis of an onset of crotchetiness is best, thank you.
>
The only remaining question is whether the crochetiness will apply retroactively.

LH

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