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That's not what a shibboleth is.
by 3am 16y ago
That's not what a shibboleth is.
- dpcan 16y agoAgreed. I had to Google it, and I don't really know what word he meant either now.
- gruseom 16y agoMy usage is a well-established if secondary meaning. See for yourself: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shibboleth http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shibboleth, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shibboleth http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/shibboleth, http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikiquote.org+shibboleth http://www.google.com/search?q=site:wikiquote.org+shibboleth, even (selected at random from project gutenberg texts) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/356/356-h/356-h.htm http://www.gutenberg.org/files/356/356-h/356-h.htm. Can you find a better word? I'd happily replace it, but I can't think of any other that means a platitude that happens to be false. Just to get back on topic, I'm disappointed that no one else seems to appreciate the beauty of oscargodson's question. It's one of those things that is dope-slap obvious, but only once you see it.
- 3am 16y agoRight on both counts! Consider the upvote my atonement for being overly and not entirely correctly nit-picky.