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Tiny niggle about a well-known phrase and a word that is not particularly well-known outside of the phrase anymore: the word is moot. (A moot used to be a meeti
by stan_rogers 5y ago
Tiny niggle about a well-known phrase and a word that is not particularly well-known outside of the phrase anymore: the word is moot. (A moot used to be a meeting or assembly of people who would discuss and decide things, often Very Important Things™. Nowadays, moot is mostly an adjective referring to things that might be debatable, but the only benefit to debating them would be the debate itself.)
- selimthegrim 5y agoOne can still say "to moot an issue for discussion (bring up an issue)" but what also fascinates me is the other meaning for mute involving bird evacuation. I have to wonder what happened in Latin?