gbaji wrote:
Jophiel wrote:
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Again. If the term confuses you...
I laugh at the continued irony.
And yet, you clearly were confused. By a term that if I'd used in any gunshop or any shooting range in the US would have been instantly understood given the context. If someone uses the term "long rifle" and is clearly not speaking of an historical piece, he must be speaking of a long gun with a rifled barrel. It's really not that complicated. I guess you can laugh about it if you want, but it's your ignorance of the subject that's at issue here.
Whether or not you choose to accept it, words have meaning. You can disagree with what you think classifies as different classes of things but redefining classes ad-hoc while keeping only tenuous internal consistency, and then arguing that your definitions are 'obviously correct' just makes you look uninformed or senile. It's quite tiring to try to keep up with your dictionary, which differs significantly from Webster's, and differs for no intelligible reason, other than that you want to use whatever words you said first in a conversation rather than bow to convention. If you choose to do so, I never, ever want to see you cry about semantics again, even if you are in the right.
Thanks for reading!
Nexa
Edited, Jul 24th 2012 11:32pm by Timelordwho