Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:36 pm
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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Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:37 pm
words are vessels, like toilets; they carry a lot of shit in 'em
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:38 pm
Ms Harmless wrote:words are vessels, like toilets; they carry a lot of shit in 'em
love this
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:38 pm
Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:39 pm
Wow - this thread. I can't believe it still has life, and after having skimmed through the last 20 pages or so
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:40 pm
With agreed upon definitions, how could we equivocate? Motte and baileys are too good to give up.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:41 pm
Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:42 pm
I dont really care bout definitions, if you are happy with it and you are not harming anyone, whatever works is fine.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:43 pm
somebody can be working with less evolved definitions, thoughBurtReynolds wrote:Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:44 pm
you can usually expect the first definition you find with a Google search to be not-very-evolved
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:45 pm
EvolvedMs Harmless wrote:somebody can be working with less evolved definitions, thoughBurtReynolds wrote:Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:46 pm
OK please give me your definitions of What a guy and a girl are
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:46 pm
But one's understanding of a definition can change in the middle of conversation.BurtReynolds wrote:Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:46 pm
I'm not talking about amphibians or avian dinosaursBurtReynolds wrote:EvolvedMs Harmless wrote:somebody can be working with less evolved definitions, thoughBurtReynolds wrote:Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:48 pm
So what?epilogue wrote:But one's understanding of a definition can change in the middle of conversation.BurtReynolds wrote:Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:49 pm
Lots of crypto-eugenics happening smdh
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:49 pm
people whose identities are (wholly or in part) "guy" or "girl"tree_ wrote:OK please give me your definitions of What a guy and a girl are
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:49 pm
You tell meBurtReynolds wrote:So what?epilogue wrote:But one's understanding of a definition can change in the middle of conversation.BurtReynolds wrote:Emphasis on over time, as in not in the middle of a conversation.epilogue wrote:Also, it helps to be open to the understanding that definitions can (and often do) shift and change over time.
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:50 pm
Mickey wrote:Lots of crypto-eugenics happening smdh
Re: Are you not going to watch the Oscars this year?
Posted: Wed March 30, 2022 9:53 pm
How do you define identity? Do sexual organs have nothing to do with male and female?Ms Harmless wrote:people whose identities are (wholly or in part) "guy" or "girl"tree_ wrote:OK please give me your definitions of What a guy and a girl are