"Cowardice asks the question...is it safe? Expediency asks the question...is it politic? Vanity asks the question...is it popular? But conscience asks the question...is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it is right." ~Dr. Martin Luther King

Saturday 29 December 2012

A Rose By Any Other Name

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "A Silk Purse Out Of A Sow's Ear? Nah!":

Now you're resorting to name-calling? Who got a lump of coal in their stocking?

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And who was called a name? Who dat? What name ?
If no identifiable being is there, how can they be called  by a name?
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"Nincompoop!!!!!!"  they say.

But I did not say.
I said  the word "Nincompoopery"

It describes an  argument. Not a person. 

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

semantics my dear Mrs Buck.

In order to say something that is pigeon-holed as Nincompoopery, it can be said that the person that said it is a Nincompoop.