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 Originally Posted by BananaStand
I mean, if you gotta play this semantic nerd-game where "there is no such thing as null" go ahead. You're coming to the right conclusion, which is more than can be said for other people in this thread.
Right. It's our insistence that words have meanings, the most popular of which are collected in dictionaries, which is the fault, here.
It's certainly not that you use the word "prove" metaphorically to mean "really likely, but not certain" in a conversation just begging for misunderstanding (a political conversation).
You can gripe that it's other people's fault that you're not understood all you like, but it's not going to address your desire to be understood until YOU start playing the game the rest of us are playing... the game where we want to express our ideas in the most understandable way for our audience so that we can spend a minimum amount of time bickering over mangled metaphors and most of our time actually sharing our ideas.
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