Buffy ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
That and "moot."
What's the popular usage of "moot"? I've heard far too many people substitute "mute" for "moot," which earns them a hearty bitchslap (even if it's just in my mind), but, when I *do* hear "moot" used, it's always used correctly.
t edit I mean, even *Rick Springfield* knew the right way to use it....
::looks at stopwatch::
Evolution to grammar in less than a minute. I'm impressed.
"It's a moo point. It's like a cow's point. It doesn't matter."
it cannot be denied that logic and philosophy stand to lose an important conceptual label should the meaning of BTQ become diluted
That's not right. BTQ is replaceable with assumes the question or assumes the argument.
If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
That's not right. BTQ is replaceable with assumes the question or assumes the argument.
Agreed. Things that are hard to understand should be replaced with things that are easy to understand if the easy things do the job just as well. It's like, uh, the evolution of language.
If we were created by a loving, omnipotent God, why does He allow us to keep having the proscriptivist/descriptivist debate?
Because even God needs to watch something funny once in a while.
Perhaps we need to establish a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Grammar ... or possibly Language as a whole.
"Which leads me to the question..."
I dunno. It's one of the few philosophy thingies I've ever understood right away, so I'm like Rainman/Wapner about it.
Because even God needs to watch something funny once in a while.
Actually, that explains alot.