off topic, perhaps. Can someone tell me what Americans really mean by this fashionable slur: > I think anything else is just semantics. Semantics is the scie

off topic, perhaps. Can someone tell me what Americans really mean by this fashionable slur: > I think anything else is just semantics. Semantics is the science of meaning. So what do people really mean when they say that something is "just semantics"? Do they really mean sophistry?