Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests

Why is it that so many well-intentioned threads devolve into wordsmithing contests? Is it necessary to argue about the meaning of posts when the language thereof is reasonably clear on its face?

celander02-26-2019 2:20pm

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onhwy61 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,163 posts 02-26-2019 at 10:07pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Do the discussions devolve or do they evolve?
elizabeth Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 6,726 posts 02-26-2019 at 10:12pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete It is not 'smaller' it is narrower. Big difference. words are powerful. Keep cutting and eventually you will have an infinite number of them. Curiously, they will take up no more space the the one you started with.. if you pack them carefully. But my problem is... once they are infinitely thin..Do they still really HAVE a flat side??? Wouldn't the edge be way way thicker than what was the flat side when you started? So then you start cutting that edge...?? Will you eventually no longer HAVE a Mobius strip since the flats have shrunk to a one dimensional line at infinity???... Well???
bsmg Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 152 posts 02-26-2019 at 10:47pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I'll take infinity for 800
celander OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,036 posts 02-26-2019 at 10:55pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Hey, I never said W&C were honest scientists. But RF got it wrong.
stevecham Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,298 posts 02-26-2019 at 11:19pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete RF got it wrong? Don't you mean for the time she had her data she hadn't fully interpreted it or analyzed it? It wasn't for anyone else to steal and have at. That's intellectual property theft. Eventually she would have gotten it.

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