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- Posted: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 00:55:48 +0000
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The definition is not violated. "...to cause amusement or laughter" doesn't necessitate there being such a thing, due to the undefined nature of the tense, it is satisfied by there being an intention. Also, there are other definitions in the world to this, such as this, or number 1 and 4, or the first sentence. Definitions only exist because people use words in particular ways. This is a way in which people use the word. That there are a variety of "definitions" for the same word testifies to this. It is called "lexicography".
In addition, the latter part was there to demonstrate that you were dangerously close to an appeal to ignorance. I know how you hate fallacies.
Defrocking? If you are going to try to accord yourself a false sense of aptitude, at least do so within reasonably believable limits.
Prove to me how I have a false sense of aptitude.
I did not claim that your definition was false, the "wrong" was in response to your absolutist attitude concerning your one quoted definition. I said that it was not violated, that definitions in general were all records of the use of language, and that you were wrong in the totalitarian manner with which you treated your quoted example, to quote; "so much for going by the definition". My point on definitions is that there are many for any word, that no single one is "correct", for words are used differently in different situations, to allude to different things.
It should also be noted that I never described my original comment as a joke, that was you. I only mentioned it when you made the error of claiming that a "one-sided joke" wasn't a "joke".
Your false sense of aptitude? It is the demeanour you radiate, and the words you use to describe your actions, such as the relative magnitude of "defrocking", to imply humiliating victory. No such thing has occurred.
You should know that excessive diction with semantic syntax creates for a bad joke.
Wrong, it is a thing written or spoken or made with a humourous intent.
You're argument is dead, but I will admit the only valid point you had was that your joke is a joke. lol
I've already explained the bold in the response you just quoted, but apparently didn't care to read. It's still there, for your leisure.
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...but I will admit the only valid point you had was that your joke is a joke. lol
I don't recall making that point. Maybe if you didn't make them for me, you'd find our conversations far less disagreeable.
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It was almost entirely a play off a cultural stereotype, intended for comic effect. Obviously you didn't appreciate it, be it through lack of sharing the sense of humour, or a general ignorance of the implication. I don't really mind which.