[ale] OT: Security code on Credit/Debit cards revisited

[Michael B. Trausch]

On 03/23/2010 08:02 PM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> I've defended nothing except the English language and society. The
> following words all have descrete meanings:
> Stereotyp e
> Predjudice
> Segregation
> Discrimination
> Racism
>
> They are often practiced in conjunction with. one another. However,
> their meanings are different and the differences should be known. We
> should be teaching these things to our children. I was taught this in
> school and it made an impression on me. Of these 5 words the last one
> is the most dispicable. It has no possitive application.
>
> I would suggest looking those terms up in a dictionary that predates
> the redefining of those terms by the modren media. Maybe something
> before about 1975.

Invalid argument; language is a moving target---it always has been.  You 
could, using the very same logic you are using here, go back far enough 
in the English vocabulary to a point where the word didn't exist at all 
and say that it isn't a word.  That is beside the point.

Don't insult my intelligence by trying to make an argument that is 
fallacious in nature and expecting me to buy it.

	--- Mike

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