• slurpyslop@kbin.social
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    5 months ago

    doubling down on the stance of not understanding linguistics isnā€™t the play you seem to think it is

    the wikipedia article on zionism is several thousand words long, and you seem to think itā€™s possible to accurately boil that down to a one or two sentence dictionary entry

    Iā€™m sure Republicans have many definitions for a liberal.

    itā€™s more that they donā€™t have a definition at all

    they use it similarly to ā€œwokeā€, in that its a nebulous word that takes on any given meaning that they want given the context

    if you tried to distill its myriad of uses into an actual definition youā€™d get something like ā€œperson i disagree with to the point of dislikeā€, at which point the dumb part becomes making an assertion as utterly vacuous as ā€œi donā€™t like people i donā€™t likeā€

    itā€™s completely dissimilar

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      5 months ago

      Iā€™m boiling it down because this isnā€™t the kind of platform to express a thousand words. I use the dictionary, as you should. You seem to make a word which it is not. That may work in your world and it may work in the Republican world, but that doesnā€™t mean people with a common language have to accept it. Both you and Republicans are trying demean others using language which is not applicable.

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        5 months ago

        youā€™re not avoiding excessive detail in a definition due to a limited character space, youā€™re saying that a word can literally only ever have the precise meaning ascribed to it by the dictionary

        those are two completely different things and itā€™s astonishing that you would even try to make an argument that bad after opening this discussion with ā€œiā€™m sure you can do better than thatā€

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          5 months ago

          Still trying to justify your use of languageā€¦you need to be able to spit Zionist. That really says something about you.