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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by perl4ever on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:54PM (#21840506)
It really annoys me when people just dismiss a point with the phrase "this is semantics". Semantics is meaning! You're ignoring the meaning of what you responded to. If you don't think the point was valid, you should give a reason.
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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by pertymcpert on Thursday December 19, 2019 @08:12PM (#21840961)
Yeah. If anything the phrase should be more like "syntactics". Semantics is anything but semantics.
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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by richk449 on Thursday December 19, 2019 @10:46PM (#21841574)
When someone says “it’s just semantics”, they mean that the argument is only over the definition of words, not over that actual meaning.
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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by perl4ever on Friday December 20, 2019 @06:56PM (#21848471)
That may be what they think they mean, but I can't recall an instance where that was accurate, including here.

Apart from that, I don't have to like people saying "it's just semantics" if they mean the exact opposite.

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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by codingslave on Thursday December 19, 2019 @06:56PM (#21840528)
No I'm not, the plane is flawed. Boeing created a flawed plane to cut costs. Then they slapped software on it and called it fixed. Sure because it can fly you could call it "structurally sound", but its not. The plane is a pile of trash
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Re:Airplanes and Accounting Games: The Coming Boeing Collapse? by perl4ever on Thursday December 19, 2019 @07:05PM (#21840580)
I'm not saying you're wrong, just that it's irritating that you aren't supporting your opinion. You just state your opinion and follow it with something dismissive. Twice now.

Interpreting your comments in the most charitable way, you must have reasons for your opinions that convince you, so it would contribute more to the discussion if you explained why.

Nobody rejects "semantics".

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