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I've never understood the complaint that something is "just semantics", or "you're arguing semantics". If someone can't argue based on the meaning of the words
by peterpostle 13y ago
I've never understood the complaint that something is "just semantics", or "you're arguing semantics".
If someone can't argue based on the meaning of the words in a piece of text, what else can they argue about? The grammar? The spelling? Surely we _only_ want arguments based on semantics!
- MatthewWilkes 13y agoThe meaning of the sentence as a whole. "Just semantics" is used when you hinge your argument on the subtleties of meaning of one word.
- iopq 13y agoLexis and code generation, I guess