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Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by eridius on Thursday June 01, 2017 @08:25PM (#14466373)
It's a straw man because it wasn't actually my argument at all. You declared my argument to be something it wasn't, then said you disagree with the straw argument (which is another way to say you think it's wrong).

That said, the rest of your comment is quite reasonable and I'm content to let this be. I'm not entirely convinced that the only thing we disagree on is terminology, but it's certainly possible, and I don't think we need to waste any more air in figuring that out.

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Re:English is weirdly different from other languages by jdmichal on Friday June 02, 2017 @07:57AM (#14469218)
> It's a straw man because it wasn't actually my argument at all.

And I admitted as much.

I'm allowed to disagree with a certain philosophy or approach, while at the same time not discrediting it as an alternative approach nor as a basis for argument. And if I'm not attempting to discredit an argument, but rather saying that I simply don't think we will agree on an issue, then I'm not setting up a strawman.

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