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Originally Posted by calvindog
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.
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Oh hardly flattery, for to be a cardboard Delphi is to be a false prophet. I flatter myself by calling myself an idiot who knows nothing, albeit a liberal idiot. In the case of
calvindog vs. the dictionary with the question of what a word means, I am going to use the dictionary. As a paragon of pedantic exactitude, I am cognizant that dictionaries are the proper resource for the question and not your opinion of what should be struck from the dictionaries.