Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

To: darkwing104
Have you ever used a Dictionary?

You are not the one who decides what a word means.

45 posted on 04/12/2009 1:53:17 PM PDT by 1believer (even with sheep you must watch out for the ram)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 43 | View Replies ]


To: 1believer
You are not the one who decides what a word means.

I didn't say me, I said we as in Men.

Men are not God. The words we use today are men's interpretation of God's words.


52 posted on 04/12/2009 2:18:28 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Lets get dangerous)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies ]

To: 1believer
You are not the one who decides what a word means.

Hasn't Obama appionted H. Dumpty as czar of education yet

"I don't know what you mean by 'glory,'" Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. "Of course you don't – till I tell you. I meant 'there's a nice knock-down argument for you!'" "But 'glory' doesn't mean 'a nice knock-down argument,'" Alice objected. "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in a rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master – that's all." Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. "They've a temper, some of them – particularly verbs, they're the proudest – adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs – however, I can manage the whole lot! Impenetrability! That's what I say!"

I was looking to post that somewhere....

53 posted on 04/12/2009 2:20:16 PM PDT by Dosa26
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies ]

To: 1believer

It’s not that you’re wrong, it’s merely that you believe so much that just isn’t so.


57 posted on 04/12/2009 2:31:55 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies ]

To: 1believer

Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. `Of course you don’t — till I tell you. I meant “there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!”’

`But “glory” doesn’t mean “a nice knock-down argument,”’ Alice objected.

`When _I_ use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

`The question is,’ said Alice, `whether you CAN make words mean so many different things.’

`The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, `which is to be master - - that’s all.’

Alice was too much puzzled to say anything, so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again. `They’ve a temper, some of them — particularly verbs, they’re the proudest — adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs — however, _I_ can manage the whole of them! Impenetrability! That’s what _I_ say!’

`Would you tell me, please,’ said Alice `what that means?`

`Now you talk like a reasonable child,’ said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. `I meant by “impenetrability” that we’ve had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you’d mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don’t mean to stop here all the rest of your life.’

`That’s a great deal to make one word mean,’ Alice said in a thoughtful tone.

`When I make a word do a lot of work like that,’ said Humpty Dumpty, `I always pay it extra.’


102 posted on 04/12/2009 9:06:33 PM PDT by JRios1968 (The real first rule of Fight Club: don't invite Chuck Norris...EVER)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 45 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson