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Date Posted: 10:15:53 03/25/03 Tue
Author: Goktimus Prime
Subject: moot issue
In reply to: X 's message, "This is a dumb thing to argue about" on 23:21:21 03/24/03 Mon

That's why I posted the definition that I was going by -- twice -- and explained numerous times that I was going by the dictionary definition of the word.

But people still continued to argue on senselessly based on a totally *different* definition of the word. Gah!

And although people may have differing opinions about certain things, a lexicon such as a dictionary does hold some authority in terms of providing an official definition. That's why people publish lexicons in the first place -- and there's a lot of research that goes into publishing lexicons (as opposed to forming a definition based on personal opinions -- which is hardly a logical way to formulate meanings of words).

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No, it is not a dumb thing to argue about -- FawnDoo, 10:20:30 03/25/03 Tue

But he wasn't saying to ignore the definition. -- Motocron, 20:34:23 03/25/03 Tue

Of superpowers and dictionaries -- Perceptor II, 15:10:10 03/26/03 Wed