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Wholeheartedly agree with this reply. Attacking grammar is only very, very rarely the right move. It’s most useful as a distraction akin to an ad hominem attack

Wholeheartedly agree with this reply. Attacking grammar is only very, very rarely the right move. It’s most useful as a distraction akin to an ad hominem attack. Everyone knows what is meant by the author even if they don’t know the dictionary definition of cogent.

segfaltnh 3y ago
Add to that that dictionaries are lagging indicators of meaning. If people start using cogent differently, dictionaries will catch up later, but we will all understand each other ahead of that point.
- tptacek 3y ago
  It's been decades since some of the examples I pulled.