I think you’re right, but the difference between skim and 2% is the color, so I accept this option. Don’t poison dicks, just annoy them without their knowledge.

I thought “why isn’t that general practice?” then I thought “because hotels only rent to fucking adults” then I thought “hotel porn is shit anyway, bring from home, dummy.”

Comedy thrives on pain. See The Starter Wife, Grace and Frankie, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall.

Brunet is the male version of brunette in French, which is the same as the blond/blonde distinction.

Is the non-stunt dog not as cute, or did it just demand more money?

We were done here over a week ago. Get a life.

Not hair curlers?

Mostly because “Spot the Clinton Scandal” has been a political game for two and half decades, and it literally changes nothing about her qualifications or electability.

God, Caitlyn’s selfie games make me jealous. I’m gonna have to step it up.

If you don’t understand that false analogy is a logical fallacy just as the straw man argument is, then you have no business making any argument or espousing any opinion about language whatsoever.

You mean the way you turned my argument into one about beer? Yes, it’s annoying when rhetoric descends into fallacy. My argument has always been that your complaint about the word is based in a narrow understanding of language—which you demonstrate by associating “good” with “effective”, or, really, “easy for me”…

It’s not a good thing. It’s not a bad thing. It’s a thing that happened. Your whole argument relies on 1) hack having a narrow meaning (which it doesn’t. It has many meanings) and 2) an additional meaning diluting it further (but that’s not how words work. Again, the word “bar” has dozens of meanings, but it perfectly…

That argument by analogy might work if beer was a concept or words were physical objects. Since they aren’t, your analogy doesn’t make sense. You might as well be saying that making more people happy dilutes happiness. Abstract concepts don’t work that way.

And it’s this concern about “diluting” a word that I’m seeing as a concern for the word’s fragility. The word “hack” can handle meaning “tip” just as it handles “computer hack”, “hackneyed horse”, “hack lawyer”, and “computer hack”. It’s got nothing to do with “strong definitions”, whatever those are. The computer…

Since I didn’t put fragile in quotes, I can’t see how you thought I was putting it in your mouth. I’m simply saying that a word can have multiple meanings without breaking. And since a computer hack, when shared with another person, isn’t that far removed from a “tip”, then you’ll pardon me if I roll my eyes at your…

Language change isn’t positive or negative, it’s just change. Railing against people “misusing” a word is the same as shouting “get off my lawn”.

As someone who remembers that word “hack” really means to cut or chop wildly with an axe, you can keep your prescriptive nonsense to yourself.

I teach a composition class based on personal and structural violences.

I want to use it in my classroom.

Revival for a Planned Parenthood fundraiser?