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

[Ms Harmless]

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

[Ms Harmless]

words are vessels, like toilets; they carry a lot of shit in 'em

[epilogue]

words are vessels, like toilets; they carry a lot of shit in 'em

love this

[epilogue]

Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.

[Rangi Guy]

Wow - this thread. I can't believe it still has life, and after having skimmed through the last 20 pages or so

[BurtReynolds]

With agreed upon definitions, how could we equivocate? Motte and baileys are too good to give up.

[BurtReynolds]

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.

[VinylGuy]

I dont really care bout definitions, if you are happy with it and you are not harming anyone, whatever works is fine.

[Ms Harmless]

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

[Ms Harmless]

you can usually expect the first definition you find with a Google search to be not-very-evolved

[BurtReynolds]

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

Evolved

[tree_]

OK please give me your definitions of What a guy and a girl are

[epilogue]

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.

[Ms Harmless]

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

Evolved

I'm not talking about amphibians or avian dinosaurs

[BurtReynolds]

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?

[Mickey]

Lots of crypto-eugenics happening smdh

[Ms Harmless]

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"

[epilogue]

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

[Ms Harmless]

Lots of crypto-eugenics happening smdh

[tree_]

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?