(December 31, 2010 at 12:10 pm)Chuck Wrote: No, "A piece of shit" means "a piece of shit". It doesn't make any difference what i meant when I said "a piece of shit". If I meant to say "a insightful masterpiece", but what I actually said is "apiece of shit", than what I said still means "a piece of shit", and does not mean "insightful masterpiece" regardless of my intentions. You will be a wish thinking moron of the most idiotic kind to interpret what I actually said to mean anything other than "a piece of shit".So words have some kind of objective meaning independent of how we use them. Interesting...
Let's take a slightly less silly example then. Say I interpret your statement to mean that you are claiming that the Bible is actually a shabby piece of shit, a steaming lump of physical human waste. After all, "shabby piece of shit" just means what it means whether you intended it as a metaphor or not, right?
