Collection of letters by Alan Turing found in filing cabinet

Re:Collection of letters by Alan Turing found in filing cabinet by umanwizard on Sunday August 27, 2017 @11:39PM (#15114272)

I'm a native English speaker and I have never met anyone who makes this distinction, after having spoken English with many thousands of people in my life.

Etymology doesn't determine meaning.

I'm open to the possibility that in 1950s England these words meant what you say (even though in my native dialect of English they don't), but to argue that you would need to give citations, not etymologies.

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Re:Collection of letters by Alan Turing found in filing cabinet by damnfine on Monday August 28, 2017 @08:24AM (#15116044)

You used those 2 words with 1000s of people and noticed a trend? Impressive.

Words mean things. Just because you, and many others don't always observe the minutae of meaning, does not erase it. There are words you, and 1000 other peers, have not learned yet. That does not render them meaningless.

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Re:Collection of letters by Alan Turing found in filing cabinet by umanwizard on Monday August 28, 2017 @09:58AM (#15116534)

Sure, words mean things. But meaning is a social phenomenon. If you want to prove a word means something, you have to provide citations of it being used with that meaning.

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Re:Collection of letters by Alan Turing found in filing cabinet by dctoedt on Monday August 28, 2017 @09:51AM (#15116489)

> You used those 2 words with 1000s of people and noticed a trend? Impressive.

That's not what he said.

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