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Originally Posted by G1911
We have 2 different dictionaries now directly put into this thread showing it was used correctly. The legal context is not the only accepted meaning in the English language (and very obviously not the one used in the statement that has nothing whatsoever to do with the law), which is not chosen by calvindog or myself. Nor is this a particularly rare, obtuse or antiquated usage.
I know I have a mob of readers who hang on my every single word and utterance like a cardboard Delphi. They are excited to try and get me on absolutely anything, but maybe, just maybe one should make sure they are actually correct first. I am an idiot who knows nothing, it cannot be that hard to find something I have said in ~7,000 posts over ten years (all of which contain words and most of which contain a claim to fact of some kind) to correct with something that actually checks out as true.
Let's see how long it is before the next late night out of left field attack that is provably false by the usage of a dictionary yet again. This is such a wonderful use of my impassioned followers time and lives.
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Don’t flatter yourself, I actually agree with your politics and most of what you say out here and have never once tried to get you on anything you’ve said. Libel is written defamation. Slander is spoken defamation. We would never tolerate a colloquial, incorrect word usage. We are paragons of pedantic exactitude. You’re welcome.