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To: Mad Dawg
There's no "irregardless," most people think.

Yes, all this wrangling about words only proves my original point. Romanism gets caught up in definitions and misses the context. Romanism treats the arts as science. Romanism treats form as meaning.

1,717 posted on 01/11/2010 9:05:42 AM PST by the_conscience (True Americans do not insist on politically correct speech codes.)
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To: the_conscience
Romanism gets caught up in definitions and misses the context. Romanism treats the arts as science. Romanism treats form as meaning.

Terrible thing, that Romanism.

Thank God I'm a Catholic, not a Romanist.

1,721 posted on 01/11/2010 9:08:40 AM PST by Petronski (In Germany they came first for the Communists, And I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist...)
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To: the_conscience
Yes, all this wrangling about words only proves my original point. All WHAT wrangling about words? What POINT?

There's a mistake. There are several unfounded accusations. When we ask for some backup, some support or explanation for these contentions we get

Romanism gets caught up in definitions and misses the context. Romanism treats the arts as science. Romanism treats form as meaning.
Don't you see that misusing words is a little like passing counterfeit money? If somebody does it a couple of times people stop taking what he offers.

Maybe it IS an incapacity on my part, but I can scarcely make sense of what you say. And now, when there's a gauche error, instead of more care or accountability for the error, we see more incomprehensible words without support. It's hard to know how to respond to this kind of thing.

1,732 posted on 01/11/2010 9:22:37 AM PST by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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