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Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

If I ever say "it's just a semantic argument". Maybe it's because of my Linguistics training, I just roll my eyes when the word "semantics" is invoked to cover one's butt in an argument. Any discussing involving words is ultimately semantic. If you've been proven wrong, why not just acknowledge it?

Thankfully, deferring to "semantics" is very rare on Hatrack. I've just seen it a few times in a few days (if it was you, please know I made a separate thread so as not to pants you in the middle of the argument where you used it.)

End of public service announcement.

Edit: I misspelled a pronoun. How embarassing.

[ July 28, 2004, 02:55 PM: Message edited by: pooka ]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Is that the same thing as saying "your definition of sproogle is obviously different from my definition of sproogle," and then continuing to show why your definition is better?

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Sorry. [Frown]

Hobbes

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

(((Hobbes))) I was trying to not embarass you. But you get a medal for apologizing. m_p_h: I think that is what you are saying. :runs off to copyright "sproogle":

[ July 28, 2004, 03:00 PM: Message edited by: pooka ]

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Noooooooo! Sproogle is mine.

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

Thank you! This has bugged me for a long time, and I've been on the receiving end of many a "that's just semantics."

When I make a distinction between words, it's because I think it's an important distiction.

Dagonee