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Old 10-27-2016, 01:07 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Other than that, I'm going off of what my Political Science teacher taught me while you guys go off what your dumb ass 'news' sites go off of.
That's pretty pretentious. Semantic courtesy is that you don't argue a mainstream definition against an expert definition unless you are trying to make a specific point that requires the clarification. Even in that case, associating the mainstream definition with "dumb ass" is posturing - it provides no constructive criticism about the problem with the definition - and knitpicking definitions is unproductive in the first place anyway. Once you see the definition that is being used by the majority of participants in the discussion, accept it an move on discussing the mechanics and ideas and issues rather than wasting more time on definitions.
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That's pretty pretentious. Semantic courtesy is that you don't argue a mainstream definition against an expert definition unless you are trying to make a specific point that requires the clarification. Even in that case, associating the mainstream definition with "dumb ass" is posturing - it provides no constructive criticism about the problem with the definition - and knitpicking definitions is unproductive in the first place anyway. Once you see the definition that is being used by the majority of participants in the discussion, accept it an move on discussing the mechanics and ideas and issues rather than wasting more time on definitions.
No.

Edit: The whole point of me bringing it up in the first place was to get people to use the word right. This is honestly the first time I've had anybody argue that I was wrong about it. With their sources being the news sites that get a lot of things wrong rather than anything official.

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