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To: Zon
The precise definition of words does matter greatly. Even more so when a person purposefully uses the wrong definition and attributes it to what another person wrote.

And when Coulter uses a word such as "enjoy" which means "derive pleasure from" as its most common usage and definition, and her quote is take to mean such, it's hilarious to watch her and you back pedal and insist that she meant "derive benefit from". If she meant derived benefit from, why didn't she use "benefit" rather than "enjoy"?

You and I both know why.

For, since day one on this forum you've not risen to the occasion.

What "occasion"? Should I prepare for a parsing here, too?

Members of this forum are twisting themselves into knots, insisting that words don't mean what they mean, and that Coulter never said what she clearly said.

173 posted on 06/17/2006 12:25:21 PM PDT by sinkspur (Today, we settled all family business.)
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To: sinkspur

Funny how they seem to think that Coulter was just too uneducated to understand the implications of the word "enjoy" and realize it would convey meaning that she did not intend. Perhaps we should mail her a thesaurus to avoid such incidents in future?


174 posted on 06/17/2006 12:27:03 PM PDT by ahayes ("If intelligent design evolved from creationism, then why are there still creationists?"--Quark2005)
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To: sinkspur

If she meant derived benefit from, why didn't she use "benefit" rather than "enjoy"?

Because she knew hacks in the MSM and on forums would take the bait. She described some of the benefits, thus adds to the context of 'enjoying'

For, since day one on this forum you've not risen to the occasion.

What "occasion"?

See tag line.

194 posted on 06/17/2006 12:50:05 PM PDT by Zon (Honesty outlives the lie, spin and deception -- It always has -- It always will.)
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