cat13 Aug 2004
dear dark angel, p.i.,
Semantics is sort of the language equivalent of the "I'm not touching you."
You know the little brother that puts his finger right in your face, but doesn't touch you, but it's not about the touching it's about your intent.
It's like when you have a whole tirade on generalizing a particular group and you write 5000 words on it, but you preface it with "some"...as a sort "see I didn't mean all I meant some...Iâm not generalizingâ¦"
It's a sort safety, a cowardly out, a false claim that you didnât intend what you intended, even though you know and everyone else with common sense knows what you intended, but due to the rules of our language false people get to wiggle out of taking responsibility of their true intent, because of some grammatical rule like âsomeâ or using the term âniggerâ.
meow,
cat