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Well, LC, I use the OED, which has a different definition, so I don't think I should have to abide by a dictionary that you have decided to use. As it happens, though, I didn't look the word up before I used it, and when using it did so thinking of it as meaning simply "instruction". Perhaps too firm for an imploration as delicate as Glenn's, still, but there you go. Even Grant nods sometimes. I also have a tendency to use "pusillanimous" to mean the opposite of magnanimous, when in fact it means no such thing. As such, my usage was imprecise, or simply incorrect, which brings us to:
Of course, you have told Glenn to forgive you, so it seems you wouldn't defend this word choice as neutral yourself.
Why do you make things up, dude? Do you not see that it hurts me? I asked Glenn to forgive my imprecision, not me, so where you find "of course" to describe something that did not happen, I know not. I suggested more precise words. I acknowledged that my word choice was poor, but where you got neutrality from I have no idea. The words are right there for you to read, and doing so might be more useful in the first instance than looking them up in online dictionaries.
Falcon, the douche post is here. It's mainly useful as an example of how, having previously clearly been caught in a mistaken or deceitful argument - claiming that I was seeking to undermine him by using a previous pseudonym of his - he first pretended that his clearly erroneous reading was still somehow right, and that Mordant was "glossing" the facts to defend me, then, when this was shown to be utterly ludicrous, disappeared from view. Picked up on it again, in the linked thread, he apologised - to be exact, he did not, but rather said that he should have sent a PM at the time, and that I should consider that PM sent, proving that "sorry" truly is the hardest word to say - in a "sorry you suck" way - hang on while I hit the edit window:
Much as I might of liked to continue the conversation, the rude stable in which I spent an invigorating vacation was not equipped with broadband (there were, though, plenty of high horses, and I spent many an instructive hour getting down from them - perhaps you'd like the address, it's a very relaxing place?)
before (wait for it) embarking on a mistaken or deceitful argument again, this time about my use of the word "douche":
One last thing: you reaching for the word douche as a term of abuse with which to describe me. My understanding is that a douche is a device used to introduce water into the vagina for the purposes of hygiene, contraception, or to treat an infection. As your use of the word was perjorative, this seems to indicate a possible aversion on your behalf to A) vaginal hygiene, B) pregnancy, C) vaginal health, D) the thought of the insertion of an object into the vagina, or E) the vagina itself. Another possibility is that you, along with large number of gynaecologists outside the US, consider the douche to be a device that is inimical to vaginal health, upsetting as it does the pH of the vagina and, the anti-douche lobby maintain, putting the user at risk of yeast infections. If this is the case, might I suggest that you could replace the perhaps hot-button word 'douche' in your arsenal of put downs with 'nylon underwear' or 'very tight jeans'. You could also compliment somebody by calling them 'yoghurt'.
Your position vis-a-vis the douche debate notwithstanding, please tell me why you feel the need to employ a word so closely associated with the vagina as a term of abuse. Also, can I expect you to call me (or indeed any other poster you wish to insult), say, a tampon?
When it was pointed out that the douche was not a vagina-only proposition, and so that this intricate house of "you-hate-ladybits" cards was in fact not going to support the weight of the champagne glass, he disappears again. Lather, rinse, repeat, really.
He has also in the past for some reason chosen to highlight a spelling or typographical error of mine, with perjorative intent, but that was so far a one-off on his behalf - sorry, I mean on his part - so I doubt he would of essayed that again. Funny how those words sometimes just get away from you a bit, isn't it? Maybe a little like diktat?
If anyone's interested, by the way, "douche" as epicene insult is inspired by Todd Faceknife's douche/asshole/Hammett system - see here. |
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