Jun 9, 2020 · You have completely missed the point. Of course meaning derives from usage, but usage within a culture establishes consensus meaning. That is to say, words have objective …

May 31, 2017 · I assume that you’ve done all the Googling and have found, like me, that there appears to be no consensus on the origin. My favorite (almost certainly) apocryphal version …

Sep 4, 2012 · I’m not an expert at all, honestly, but having come from a physics background and taken some linear algebra, I wouldn’t consider them to be philosophically the same thing, but I …

May 8, 2025 · Meaning a police officer can say ‘we found your fingerprints at the crime scene’ as a lie. What they can’t do is have a false document from forensics printed up showing proof of …

Nov 15, 2025 · The only car system I ever flushed was the radiator/cooling network back in the 1980s. Obviously entirely different than the transmission, however, it loosened up all manner …

Mar 9, 2016 · … as opposed to “within an hour”. Say it’s 2:36 PM right now and someone says “I need an answer from you within the hour.” Does that mean they expect an answer before 3:00 …

Nov 10, 2025 · The BBC ran a documentary entitled “Trump: Second Chance?” Trump is suing them because they edited fifty minutes out of his Capitol invasion speech; the time between …

Apr 11, 2025 · If I ever find myself in Texas (which I hope will not be soon), one of my goals is to visit the Rothko Chapel. Art is pretty subjective. That doesn’t mean there’s no such thing as …

Jan 14, 2024 · OP here. Well the consensus is very clear. Thank you all. FYI my confused take on “draw the blinds” as potentially meaning “open the blinds” was by analogy to “draw the sting” …

Jan 25, 2023 · There is no consensus on whether a homonym means a word that is both a homophone and a homograph, or whether a homonym can be either a homophone or a …