Originally posted by Krusty
He's done this before, as well, on these forums.
He tries to donn an air of know-it-all by redirecting meanings of current words to archaeic meanings. You know what? Pencil comes from the same root word as noodle. Doesn't mean that it MEANS noodle. Roots of a word are not the meaning of a word. They can provide insight into HOW a word's meaning evolves, but you can't just go look up meanings for words that were used in the past and hope that they mean the same now.
It doesn't work that way, I'm sorry, it just doesn't.
I'm done arguing with wrag on this matter. He's wrong and he doesn't stand in a position capable of showing me otherwise.
know-it-all?
Me?
I think not.
So you object to the fact that I'm old and still think words mean what they used to? Archaeic is it now? Wasn't all that long ago the word meant to many what I thought it meant. Or at least it did in the older crowd.
It's just possible someone in the younger crowd heard the word used, didn't ask what was meant by it's use, but just THOUGHT they understood what it meant.
How did we get to pencils?
It doesn't work that way?????????????? What a word means is pretty much what it means. What we are refering to here IMHO is the use of porked as an idiom/slang. Still trying to figure out where you got the food preperation thingy................
As to being wrong? Hmmmm so you are now the worlds authority on the meaning of words? Or are you trying to MAKE the word mean what you want it to?
I noticed you dodged giving your definition of the word punk............... was a time IIRC using that word to refer to another could get you in some real trouble. Now I see it and hear it all over the place. Guess the meaning of that word changed too.
Fool is another word I see and hear much more frequently. Guess the meaning of that word has changed considerably as well.
So you are done arguing with wrag??? AND now you say I am wrong and the matter is settled because you say it is so?????????????????????????????????????? Who are YOU Sir?
