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 Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
Right. It's our insistence that words have meanings, the most popular of which are collected in dictionaries, which is the fault, here.
It's certainly not that you use the word "prove" metaphorically to mean "really likely, but not certain" in a conversation just begging for misunderstanding (a political conversation).
Says the guy who eschews the dictionary definition of "intelligence" so he can slice and dice it however is necessary in order for his ramblings to make sense.
Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
You can gripe that it's other people's fault that you're not understood all you like, but it's not going to address your desire to be understood until YOU start playing the game the rest of us are playing... the game where we want to express our ideas in the most understandable way for our audience so that we can spend a minimum amount of time bickering over mangled metaphors and most of our time actually sharing our ideas.
Are you 'sharing ideas'? I must have missed it. All I see is you pissing on what was a fine exchange of ideas.
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