(January 5, 2019 at 4:26 am)Peebo-Thuhlu Wrote: At work.
(January 5, 2019 at 3:47 am)T0 Th3 M4X Wrote: Do you believe everything people point out? That's why you do research. It someone tells you something, check it out for yourself.
A "dictionary" is an authority for defining terms. That's what we were looking at. Defining a term. If you ask someone to define something, then complain because they used a definition from the dictionary, then it sounds pretty ridiculous. Then why even ask them for a definition? Why not give your own definition, then move from there? If I look for a definition, I'm not going to assume there's a specific one you want. I just go to something that is objective, and relatively unbiased, and that's what I share.
No M4X. That was not my point.
Again you want to cite 'The Dictionary' as 'The Authority'.
Now, admittedly, in your country there very well just might be 'Dictionary Police' or some such legal group who can and do go around insisting/demanding/dictating/enforcing how the people there use the words.
*Shrug*
What people, including myself, have asked you for is your way of using words. Of your mind's definition of words. Now, again, you might be in fear of your country's 'Dictionary Police' and hence feel you must conform to said dictionary.
How that's a bit clearer. Cheers.
It's not even that. You want to cherry pick definitions. If we can't agree on how something is defined, then there's no way to go from A to B, so no point in going round-n-round. Yet you're insistent that we should. Sorry, but no thanks.
