On 04/24/2013 10:38 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond <richmondmathewson@...> writes:
that "thing" word is semantically empty as well.
"thing" is by design semantically empty. It's an agnostic placeholder, as in
definition 2 here:
<http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thing>
And maybe "issues" in the way people seem to be using it hereabouts is
an agnostic something
designed by a political-correctness committee.
I understand the following:
to issue. verb. as in "the effluvium was issuing from the noxious end of
the cow"
an issue. noun. as in "have you seen the latest issue of 'The Magnet'?"
I also understand the standard definitions of the words 'problem',
'difficulty' and 'disagreement'
all of which my putative committee would seem to want to replace with
their word "issues" as
a way of signalling the same without potentially causing offence.
Richmond.
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