CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
That reminds me, I found an AI detection tool for browsers:
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"Mr. Wolfe is in the middle of a fit. It's complicated. There's a fireplace in the front room, but it's never lit because he hates open fires. He says they stultify mental processes. But it's lit now because he's using it. He's seated in front of it, on a chair too small for him, tearing sheets out of a book and burning them. The book is the new edition, the third edition, of Webster's New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published by the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts. He considers it subversive because it threatens the integrity of the English language...."
-from "Gambit" by Rex Stout
- from an editorial in the Monday, September 11, 1961 "Staten Island Advance", page 10
The book review of the dictionary on page 3 of the September 21, 2916 "Burlington Free Press" was much more positive. "If a dictionary is capable of being refreshing, this one is. More than that, it is painlessly informative and entirely realistic."
I trust most folks were nonplussed - by one meaning or the other.
-from "Gambit" by Rex Stout
- from an editorial in the Monday, September 11, 1961 "Staten Island Advance", page 10
The book review of the dictionary on page 3 of the September 21, 2916 "Burlington Free Press" was much more positive. "If a dictionary is capable of being refreshing, this one is. More than that, it is painlessly informative and entirely realistic."
I trust most folks were nonplussed - by one meaning or the other.
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J.Quondam
CR 1/8
Not just legal terms, but pretty much any technical jargon, i think.
But personally I've found that most of the time no amount of explanation really helps. They'll just say, "Well, when I say it I mean [X] ..." as if that somehow negates the real definition. To my mind, that stems from the same weird attitude that "My opinions are just as relevant as your facts" which has infected so much discourse over the last few decades. It's disheartening.
Ryujin
Legend
I specifically mentioned legal definitions because I moderate the legal section of a motorcycle message board, in Canada, and more than once I have had to direct people to the "definitions" section of a statute because the word they're hinging their choices on doesn't mean what they think it means. For example the term "vehicle" in our Highway Traffic Act also includes bicycles and ebikes. "I can't be charged for going the wrong way down a one way street, on my bicycle!" Um, yeah, you can. All "vehicles" must comply, not just the subset known as "motor vehicles."
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
One of my classmates at university was furious when he got ticketed for DUI while riding his bike.
Ryujin
Legend
And then there are the people who get charged with impaired operation on private property. If you can be charged for it while operating a boat in the middle of a lake, under the exact same section of the Criminal Code, then driving through a field is no exception.
WHICH Big Dictionary, apostate?
dragoner
KosmicRPG.com
I skipped over this by putting two pages of important terms right in the intro.
CleverNickName
Limit Break Dancing (He/They)
You jest, but there are threads on this very forum where people attempt to write their own dictionaries in order to win an argument.
"Well that's just one definition of (commonly-used word.) But if you go back to my first post, you'll see that I wrote my own unique definition of (commonly-used word), and while it's not recognized by anyone except myself, I will insist that everyone use it exclusively in this discussion. Because otherwise, my argument doesn't work."
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