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Thread #133877 Message #3044722
Posted By: MGM·Lion
02-Dec-10 - 04:56 AM
Thread Name: BS: Bishop Suspended - critic of royal wedding
Subject: RE: BS: Bishop Suspended - critic of royal wedding
Another point, Tim: philological or perhaps semantic.
There is no limit to the number of terms one is permitted by law to use for any referent. If I choose to call something a Law of Unforeseen Consequences, whose referent you perfectly well comprehend, instead of I can't even remember your ballsachingly boring academic's name for the same phenomenon, that doesn't discount its phenomenal existence. The spectacle of a man of your intelligence thinking he has absolutely indisputably knock-down put my argument right out of court because I use a universally accepted & perfectly apprehensible term for something for which you have a personal preference for another name, worries me much more than any thought of the shame and disgrace that would beset me if I happened to meet the Queen, & bowed my head slightly as that is the recognised courtesy. {I have, actually, several times met Prince Edward, back in the days I was Cambridge theatre critic for a national paper and he was a student actor. I didn't bow to him ~~nor he to me: but I thought at moments that he might be going to!}