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To: shibumi

Language is as meaningful as it’s users allow. You knew what I meant. Ipso facto, the expression “my bad” was not meaningless.


20 posted on 06/03/2011 8:21:23 AM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Springfield Reformer
Since "qui tacet consentire videtur" my failure to point out what I consider to be an abysmal failing in linguistic expression and "sine non qua" in the debasement of discourse would be almost as unacceptable as the pedantic use of foreign phrases when standard English will do.

"Quod Erat Demonstrandum."
22 posted on 06/03/2011 8:40:00 AM PDT by shibumi (Ego Nunquam Ubi Sub Ubi!)
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