01-11-2011, 07:45 PM
$tevie wrote:
...you should avoid arguing about technical semantics that nobody in the general public even needs to know.
That doesn't change anything anyhow, if someone sees crosshairs in the context being discussed they know what it is supposed to mean -- and so do you.
Dakota, context matters. Meaning, matters. Words without either, which is your only specialty, are irrelevant. The above quote is the example why. If you delight in winning semantic arguments, while broadly missing the main point, you have much to learn about not only how to exchange ideas convincingly, but of forming them at all.