Are you not not going to watch the Oscars this year?

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but words are expansive and evolve all the time, we can't just point to one dictionary definition and hope it encompasses all of what a word means
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words are vessels, like toilets; they carry a lot of shit in 'em
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Ms Harmless wrote:words are vessels, like toilets; they carry a lot of shit in 'em
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Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
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Wow - this thread. I can't believe it still has life, and after having skimmed through the last 20 pages or so
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With agreed upon definitions, how could we equivocate? Motte and baileys are too good to give up.
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epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.
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I dont really care bout definitions, if you are happy with it and you are not harming anyone, whatever works is fine.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.
somebody can be working with less evolved definitions, though
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you can usually expect the first definition you find with a Google search to be not-very-evolved
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Ms Harmless wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.
somebody can be working with less evolved definitions, though
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OK please give me your definitions of What a guy and a girl are
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BurtReynolds wrote:
epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.
But one's understanding of a definition can change in the middle of conversation.
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BurtReynolds wrote:
Ms Harmless wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.
somebody can be working with less evolved definitions, though
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epilogue wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.
But one's understanding of a definition can change in the middle of conversation.
So what?
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Lots of crypto-eugenics happening smdh
VinylGuy wrote:its really tiresome to see these ¨good guys¨ talking about any political stuff in tv while also being kinda funny and hip and cool....its just...please enough of this shit.
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tree_ wrote:OK please give me your definitions of What a guy and a girl are
people whose identities are (wholly or in part) "guy" or "girl"
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BurtReynolds wrote:
epilogue wrote:
BurtReynolds wrote:
epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.
But one's understanding of a definition can change in the middle of conversation.
So what?
You tell me
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Mickey wrote:Lots of crypto-eugenics happening smdh
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Ms Harmless wrote:
tree_ wrote:OK please give me your definitions of What a guy and a girl are
people whose identities are (wholly or in part) "guy" or "girl"
How do you define identity? Do sexual organs have nothing to do with male and female?
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