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The purpose of arguing | by subbywan | 2004-01-13 11:49:09 |
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The purpose of arguing is to piss people off. | by dire_lobo | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Is not! | by Naruki | 2004-01-13 12:19:33 |
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And to pick a semantic nit | by tigermouse | 2004-01-13 12:25:29 |
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I highly doubt that you can pass debates | by Naruki | 2004-01-13 12:32:14 |
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Oh, pooh on you. | by tigermouse | 2004-01-13 12:43:04 |
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You on me? I don't think so! | by Naruki | 2004-01-13 12:50:24 |
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Now you're just being hard-headed. | by tigermouse | 2004-01-13 13:17:15 |
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by Naruki |
2004-01-13 13:38:03 |
I'll see if I can get it this time around. Two words are synonyms in Very Specific Contexts. In those contexts, they can be interchanged with very little or no loss of meaning/nuance.
But when you have one of those words in a different context, then the synonymity is broken (usually, though some words may be synonymous in several different contexts). Such as "I had the breath knocked out of me" and "I had the wind knocked out of me". But you wouldn't say "the breath is blowing outside" or "take short winds".
Your post implied that the words are "usually" synonymous. They aren't. In their VSC, they _are_ synonyms. Outside of that, they are _not_ synonyms. Period.
Yeah, I like spelling my punctuation sometimes. So what? Question mark. |
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Oh, I figured it was another "spurious-proof-of- | by adiplomat | 2004-01-13 13:44:00 |
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*sigh* | by tigermouse | 2004-01-13 13:56:25 |
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BZZT! ;-) | by Naruki | 2004-01-13 14:09:58 |
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My mistake was in continuing to squabble with you | by tigermouse | 2004-01-13 14:54:38 |
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If you want us to give *you* that kind of | by Naruki | 2004-01-13 15:12:08 |
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Besides which, | by BloodyViking | 2004-01-13 15:25:11 |
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Ooh, good point. | by Naruki | 2004-01-13 15:27:09 |
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I was just going by the definition order | by tigermouse | 2004-01-13 15:49:59 |
