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The etymology cannot trump use for determination of meaning. Here are a number of examples: https://www.thoughtco.com/etymological-fallacy-words-16906...

Word usage has nothing to do with progress toward greater racial harmony. Meaning is use. When a white person uses the N word, he means, "hey guys, I'...

The fallacy is in suggesting that etymology is evidence of a word's meaning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etymological_fallacy Meaning is use.

I know what you mean. I asked my kid to clean his room, and 20 years later he moves out, and guess what, it falls on me.

I'd also add that you do yourself a disservice to take seriously every criticism. It assumes your critic is better than you and that you should meet t...

I need an extension of time to read all these requests for more time.

I think it's even beyond that. Some may interpret within the four corners of the document, others may try to interpret by figuring out the author's pu...

My view on the reviews and the voting is that they are helpful, but they don't matter. It's not like this small focus group of opinions we get here ar...

The problem is that liberalized religions and even atheists and agnostics buy in to these restorationist claims by fundamentalist groups and accept th...

The Jones begot the Johnsons, thus the "son" designation. My son is Hanoverson. My grandchild will be Hanoversonson. I see no problem with this method...

That's what he says. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT84jMWvD/

Good point. A conceptus is microscopic, making them tinier than the Whos of Whoville.

The averagest people are the Johnsons. They eat casseroles, enjoy the evening news, talk about the prices at the grocery stores, and they wear cozy sw...

While technically not a nationality, the tallest people are NBA basketball players at over 6'6". The smallest people, again, while not technically a n...

@"BC" said they were Dutch. I assume they were the Dutchmasters wearing funny hats and smoking cigars.

I tried harmony, but I found I was better at dissonance.

You're welcome my son.

I was not going to respond to your post as my way of telling you no, and in a couple of days, you'd smile, and go, "ahhhh, I see what he did there," b...

I actually think God answers all of your prayers. Just most of the time he says no. It's not a whole lot different if you prayed to me. I'd tell you n...

If you're right about this, then that would mean @"Baden" actually did plant a glowing review of his own story in the comments as I accused him of. It...

Are there some other platforms that would consider adding a penalty box as described? I'd like to get that started, at least to have the foundation po...

Speaking of obscure biblical text that didn't make the canon, the Book of Enoch is an interesting one. There is a Christian sect in Ethiopia that cons...

I imagine that this entry is your own, here offering your own self-evaluation, like "Hey guys, look at me! You've not given me enough credit! Give me ...

If there were a thread entitled "Views on Death," this might be a post, but I don't see it as much as a short story. And if it were a post, I'd PM the...

Atheists seem to care about whether there were an actual Jesus and what the specific words that came out of his mouth than do many theists. I thought ...

It's not limited to the time or geographical region you assumed. This stuff is easy enough to Google. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_anti...

I envisioned a hockey style penalty box where for the two minutes you were in lock down, your opponent was in a power play and could comment without a...

Simon represents the slowly eroding childhood innocence being replaced by the stark reality of the pending divorce. That's my psychoanalysis I project...

I found the quote as early as 1869 in a book entitled, A Crown of Life by a one Isa Blagen. https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/48040008-the-crown-o...

Since shifting from novels, then to movies, then to television shows, then to youtube, and now to TikTok, I have found that my attention span has drop...

It's a 3,000 word limit according to Rule 5. So why the 3,000 word limit you might now ask? Because it was thought that 2,000 wasn't enough.

I don't want this to appear as if there is some bias against Chinese culture or traditions. My only point is that the information that is passed down ...

There are of course, but what we're talking about isn't how information is transmitted, but the accuracy of the trasmission. I would suggest that all ...

This entry is an excellent first chapter of something more. It develops our main character, the narrator, as a pensive, sentimental woman, remembering...

My point was only that because your documents indicate something happened, that doesn't mean that it actually happened, regardless of whether it comes...

Ancient documents from the near east that have become central to Western civilization tell of a six day creation and a great flood. Does their antiqui...

But isn't this what all governments say?

I feel like you might have stopped reading before you got to the end, but, if you did read it to the end, you win. This is the most hilarious deadpan ...

Yes, this is it. To all who read me as a conservative suburbanite yelling at people to get the hell off my lawn, you missed it! I'm disguising myself ...

I'd take the apple in the metaphor to represent the knowledge of good and evil, distinguishing humans from the animals that lack such knowledge. I don...

It is to teach you that sometimes in life there just aren't do overs. When I was a kid, you typed, and if you typed wrong, there it remained. You migh...

That actually happened to me twice. The first time, I didn't appreciate what I had and I left in search of something more only to return back to see t...

As part of the leadership team in the steam punk community, I would be delighted to answer any of your questions about our people, our way of life, ou...

You don't know me, not at all. I'm a chicken fucker if there ever was a chicken fucker, just like my deddy and his deddy before him. I also do have me...

I can't imagine you've not figured out which one I wrote.

It is a good example, consistent with the adage not to discuss religion and politics.

There's obviously a difference between political philosophy and arguing politics, the former we see much less of. I doubt in the former you'd hear a w...

So what I gather is that a madman murdered his girlfriend and someone is screwing with his memories and cognitive function and that's driving him even...

I noted the author's Marxist leanings as well, as he built on the class warfare angle, the haves getting to eat from an array of gourmet desserts, but...

I didn't fully understand it. What did resonate with me was this part: This part seemed real, almost non-fiction, describing the emotional overload wh...