oldfart vs flarider......

Thank you for your support in my always being right

I understood what he really meant and was helping him out

You actually are right…sometimes.

But simply repeating faulty conventional wisdom until your opponents grow weary and give up is not “being right.”

"words mean different things to different people in different situations."

http://www.colorado.edu/communication/meta-discourses/Papers/App_Papers/Erickstad.htm

This is why propaganda by re-definition is so effective. Just the word "citizen" could mean "a free man" or "one who works for the state" or any almost unlimited number of things. Now words do have meanings or definitions and they can and do change over time. So any two people can have a conversation where they come away with a different experience all together. How many definitions are there to the word "to"? I don't know about twenty. When was the last time you heard someone say "Put the door to" ? Of course that means to close the door but it is hardly ever used. Another thing not mentioned is fixed ideas. People have fixed ideas. You could say opinion but it less precise. Here is a test. Take a person that you spend a lot of time disagreeing with in the no holds barred "non-moto" section and go over to the "moto" section and just look at their posts there. Might be a little unfair example because of all of the emotion tied into politics, religion etc. but you get my point.

I clicked on this thread cause I thought it was a cagefight. Sorry.