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  • Context is as important to language as syntax.

    Context is important to the message, yes. But if I need the context to understand a particular word, I would understand the message just as well without that word.

  • I'm aware of the existence of contranyms. None of the examples you gave apply, as they just have different meanings, or the same leaving with different connotations.

  • Wasn't he introduced with a story of pulling off a miracle to escape the Gorn? Or am I not remembering properly?

  • Right, that's "speaking figuratively." There are rules for that.

    But a word that means the opposite of what it means is not a useful word.

    I'd hate to find a box in my lab marked "inflammable."

  • Trouser Python. Technically true, and no-one is going to check.

  • No research needed. Getting back to the routine, after a suitable period that varies from person to person, is important. But it is not, in itself, healing, and someone who didn't miss a day of work is not doing well.

  • Oh certainly. But it's treating a symptom, not the actual problem.

  • That's not healthy, though. That's repression, which is bad for you. I know it's bad for you, as I have not had more than six emotions in the past 20 years.

  • Are we expecting the Democratic party to actually support him? Seems the national leadership would rather see someone else in his spot.

  • Can Trump prove his citizenship, if this policy goes through?

  • Indeed it is so.

    Nevertheless, assholes.

  • I'm trying to determine if we are using words to mean the same things. It seems we are not.

    Since I don't take issue with your goals, only your vocabulary, I suppose that continuing to discuss it is pointless.

  • If the employers are using computers to read my resume, why shouldn't I used a computer to write it?

    Assholes to the lot of them.

  • Would you claim that the soap box failed of no-one spoke against him?

    Would you claim the jury box failed if he was never brought to trial?

  • What liberty are you talking about? The liberty of approved leaders? It's a failure because we voted for a bad leader?

    We got the leader we voted for. The failure is in the people.

  • That's not my idea of liberty at all. But you can't say the ballot box failed, just because the people elected the worst president in the history of people in suits.