RE: too rich?
January 25, 2013 at 9:06 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2013 at 9:07 pm by Violet.)
(January 25, 2013 at 8:50 pm)Insanity x Wrote: Wording is kinda important if a discussion is to go anywhere. How are you meant to continue if you don't know what the other person means?
+1
You guys look to be in a semantic blockade of stubbornness. Either one of you has the power to use the others' definition and say "well, what I said doesn't apply under your definition, please allow me to rephrase with a new word(s) or to modify my argument so that it fits within your definition"...
A person doesn't become suddenly 'wrong' when they adapt their terms and arguments to another's (all arguments made with 'elf' under the understanding of Tolkien-esque elves are simply not the same when the definition of 'elf' as a very short person is used instead)... the intended argument doesn't change just because two people are defining the words differently, instead a questioning individual might ask the arguer to define 'elf'.
It's certainly more productive than this bickering
*DISCLAIMER* This is going off the assumption that Jonb is serious when he suggests that others are believing he meant something that he didn't intend.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
