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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 27, 2018 11:19:00 GMT
<iframe width="26.09999999999991" height="4.840000000000003" style="position: absolute; width: 26.1px; height: 4.84px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 0px; top: 0px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_93026294"></iframe> <iframe width="26.09999999999991" height="4.840000000000003" style="position: absolute; width: 26.1px; height: 4.84px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1238px; top: -202px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_77719457"></iframe> <iframe width="26.09999999999991" height="4.840000000000003" style="position: absolute; width: 26.1px; height: 4.84px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 10px; top: -15px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_36195677"></iframe> <iframe width="26.09999999999991" height="4.840000000000003" style="position: absolute; width: 26.1px; height: 4.84px; z-index: -9999; border-style: none; left: 1238px; top: -15px;" id="MoatPxIOPT0_90146847"></iframe> *Nods head slowly* That's right Nick. I wouldn't describe somebody as "argumentative and quarrelsome" since both words mean the same thing and this would therefore be a redundancy, the type of grammatical mistake only thickos who don't know how to use apostrophes correctly would make. So it is your contention that there is no difference between an argument and a quarrel? Clearly you didn’t go to a proper school, or perhaps you did but were expelled for getting up to knife mischief behind the bicycle shed’s? That's right. They are synonyms. A synonym is a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, in this instance both words referring to a verbal fight. www.thesaurus.com/browse/argument
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2018 11:26:17 GMT
Whilst they might be synonyms they do convey slightly different nuanced meanings though.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 27, 2018 11:29:11 GMT
Whilst they might be synonyms they do convey slightly different nuanced meanings though. But neither is a synonym for "querulous".
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2018 11:30:15 GMT
Agreed
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 27, 2018 11:31:33 GMT
Thankyou donkey, you are of course quite right! Obviously the words have similar meaning, but not identical meaning. But you probably had to pay attention in English lesson’s at school, and not be staring out of the window wondering who you were going to stab next, in order to understand the difference.
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Post by patty on Feb 27, 2018 11:31:53 GMT
I do love a good discussion regarding the use of our wonderful language. This thread has inspired me to dig out 'The Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth' for a another wander through.... I not tempted to wade into the argument though...I'll watch from the sidelines...
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 27, 2018 11:32:15 GMT
Whilst they might be synonyms they do convey slightly different nuanced meanings though. But neither is a synonym for "querulous". Nobody said they were!
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Post by Mr Stabby on Feb 27, 2018 11:40:03 GMT
Thankyou donkey, you are of course quite right! Obviously the words have similar meaning, but not identical meaning. The word "quarrel" has identical meaning to one of the two definitions of the word "argument". I don't know why your parents wasted all that money sending you to poncy school, they could have saved it and sent it to me and I could have given you online English language lessons for a fraction of the cost.
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Post by Telemachus on Feb 27, 2018 11:45:29 GMT
Thankyou donkey, you are of course quite right! Obviously the words have similar meaning, but not identical meaning. The word "quarrel" has identical meaning to one of the two definitions of the word "argument". I don't know why your parents wasted all that money sending you to poncy school, they could have saved it and sent it to me and I could have given you online English language lessons for a fraction of the cost. So by your own admission, the words are not indentical. Only similar.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2018 11:48:07 GMT
Thankyou donkey, you are of course quite right! Obviously the words have similar meaning, but not identical meaning. But you probably had to pay attention in English lesson’s at school, and not be staring out of the window wondering who you were going to stab next, in order to understand the difference. I spent more time working out how I could get the English teacher to come over to help me so I could get a closer look at her ample breasts - English was about the only subject I didn't bunk off.
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