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[Poopadoop]

My point is that communication requires cooperation between all parties.

It requires that people use words properly. If I'm using a word improperly and you point that out to me, I'd be grateful. I don't want to go around using words in a way no-one else understands.

If I start using a word in a context that doesn't make sense to you, then one of us needs to bend a bit to keep the exchange of ideas flowing. It doesn't matter which. We just need to cooperate to try to understand what each other intend to mean.

Again, there's no ambiguity about what kangaroo court means, there was just confusion in Ong's head. I figured out what he meant by it, I pointed out it was wrong and what it really means, and I also pointed out that his alternative meaning made no sense either.

Breaking a flow of conversation to hash out what someone intended with a word happens from time to time. That's fine.

So is telling them when they're using a word incorrectly, and what the word actually means.

What irks me is when one person, instead of cooperating, makes an appeal to authority to bully the other into using words in their way.
It's certainly *a* solution, but not a very cooperative one.

So if a person comes to you and says force equals mass times gravity you aren't allowed to hand them a physics textbook and point out their mistake? That's being uncooperative? That's making an appeal to authority to bully them? FML.

I mean fine, I could have been a bit more polite about it than I was. I'm sorry for that, ok? From now on when someone uses a word incorrectly I'll try to be more forgiving.