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Not disagreement, just faulty logic and misuse of words. Tom Send a noteboard - 30/01/2012 06:51:38 PM
Your logic was as follows:

If someone asks the question, "What is your profession?" to 100 people, all will answer by listing their job. Therefore, all 100 people equate the two words.

That was faulty logic. My use of the (well-known) "leading question" of "When did you cease raping children?" was not a hyperbolic answer. It was an example of how leading questions do not lead to answers that assume the question was valid.

Hyperbole is, as you noted, exaggeration used to create emphasis or effect. The leading question of "When did you cease raping children?" is not an exaggeration of a real situation. It is the use of a leading question that is frequently mentioned when pointing out faults in logic quite often, just like "The next sentence is true. The preceding sentence is false."

The hyperbole that I was complaining about was the way you were exaggerating the way that language evolves beyond any recognition. By the standards you were applying, we should just simply dispense with spelling and grammar, allow ebonics and pidgin dialects of all sorts. It was an exaggeration of the situation that you were passing off as reasonable.

I find it amusing that you are, essentially, defending political correctness and taking personally the attempts by people at this site to actually have words mean what they mean.

Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.

ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius

Ummaka qinnassa nīk!

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Profession/professional - 28/01/2012 06:22:40 AM 710 Views
well from this side of it... - 28/01/2012 08:45:08 AM 339 Views
I think your point is valid. - 28/01/2012 10:23:37 AM 351 Views
I'm not sure I agree with that. - 28/01/2012 10:59:31 AM 362 Views
You can disagree with the English language all you like. - 28/01/2012 03:29:05 PM 492 Views
Well. - 28/01/2012 06:11:26 PM 339 Views
I don't see much point in trying to preserve the archaic use of the word - 28/01/2012 01:54:53 PM 411 Views
Ha! That's silly. - 28/01/2012 03:32:01 PM 365 Views
No it is silly to think you can make a living language stagnant - 28/01/2012 05:38:27 PM 358 Views
That's hyperbole if I ever heard it. - 28/01/2012 08:29:20 PM 333 Views
If you were to ask 100 Americans what their profession was they would tell you what their job was - 29/01/2012 02:52:22 AM 314 Views
Ask 100 Americans "When did you cease raping children?" - 29/01/2012 03:05:57 AM 427 Views
speaking of hyperbole *NM* - 29/01/2012 03:09:45 AM 154 Views
There was no hyperbole in my response. Seems like we found two words you can't define properly. - 30/01/2012 02:11:43 PM 330 Views
disagreement with you equals ignorance, how typical - 30/01/2012 03:39:36 PM 325 Views
Not disagreement, just faulty logic and misuse of words. - 30/01/2012 06:51:38 PM 334 Views
True story.... - 28/01/2012 09:11:10 PM 406 Views
You're absolutely correct. It's just society trying to make shit jobs sound better. - 28/01/2012 03:25:48 PM 367 Views
Yeah, it's important to denote which occupations demand extraordinary, society-affecting judgement. - 28/01/2012 05:19:30 PM 446 Views
at this point, though, I think teaching should be professionalized - 28/01/2012 05:37:46 PM 416 Views
that will be hard for them to do - 28/01/2012 05:44:53 PM 351 Views
depends on the teacher you talk to. - 28/01/2012 07:11:58 PM 332 Views
That is a good point. - 28/01/2012 08:16:38 PM 322 Views
You need a license, don't you? *NM* - 28/01/2012 08:15:10 PM 156 Views
I believe the actual term used is "certification" - 28/01/2012 08:49:23 PM 323 Views
We have a certification process that any college grad with common sense could pass. - 28/01/2012 10:36:29 PM 364 Views
Perhaps not, then. - 28/01/2012 11:12:33 PM 315 Views
in my mind teaching is indeed a profession. *NM* - 28/01/2012 08:25:18 PM 225 Views
and there is the problem - 29/01/2012 02:59:15 AM 423 Views
A teacher must have a collage degree and not only that but - 29/01/2012 11:07:51 AM 337 Views
oh I disagree with the strict code of conduct part - 29/01/2012 05:57:35 PM 344 Views
Yes! - 28/01/2012 09:25:03 PM 387 Views
Connotations change. Deal with it. *NM* - 28/01/2012 10:29:20 PM 324 Views

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