Quote Originally Posted by jkdesq
Good grief. Can't you even try to give us your view of where words come from. I have asked and your answer was "protactinium". For one thing your answer doesn't even suggest where the meaning of "protactium" comes from to say nothing of words generally. Hardly a responsive answer. You are now being extremely evasive.
You said "always". I proved you wrong. The problem is that you seem to generalize based on you belief that words can mean anything the user desires. You also said that a blouse was a female garment. That was wrong. You said that slacks are a female garment. That was wrong. You think that "cow" is strictly gender based. That was wrong. I have no interest in playing your game since any answer I give will be rejected if it doesn't suit your perception.

The question has been asked three or more times: WHERE DO YOU THINK THE DEFINITION OF WORDS COME FROM? You have not provided an answer. There is now a reasonable presumption that you cannot give us an answer. Rebut the presumption, if you can.
If you want to converse with me then you need to be waaaaay more specific than you have been so far. How about an admission that your assertion that words are "ALWAYS" culturally derived was wrong? You can not continue to make factural errors and expect them to be ignored.

Consider this: my conclusion that kilts are in fact skirts can be easily arrived at by either induction or deduction. I am sorry that you don't like it, but I am not going to wander into your social relativism quagmire.

Why don't you just declare victory and be done with it?