TL;DR: A) this isn't twitter B) obvious obtuseness weakens arguments and weakens people's impression of you. C) You're pretending a definition that was out of date a century ago is some common anything anyone who reads would know (!!!)
- I'm very well read. Enough so that I just smiled at the attempted negging.
- But, I'm curious by nature, so it crosses my mind later. I think "what's up with that? I've never heard it, I'm not infallible, and maybe bgandrew was for real and just is unfamiliar with conversational norms? maybe he has seen it in his extremely wide reading corpus that exceeds mine? I'm not infallible and I, like everyone else, have inflated opinions of myself. And that other account did say it was a definition of it..."
- Went through top 500 results on books.google.com for castration, none meant "removed from a book"
- Was a bit surprised to find _0_ results over 500. I think to myself...where was that definition from? Surely it wasn't a rushed strawman?
- It turns out the attempted bullying is much more funny than it even first seemed.
- That definition of castration is from an 1893 dictionary. The only times that definition is in Google's entire corpus, search and books, is A) in the 1893 dictionary B) academic paper on puns, explaining that no one understands it that way anymore because its archaic https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/mod.2021.0351?...
I assume you have multiple accounts here, since I was replying to a different user. This in itself tells something, but then again, why should I care. Not sure why you keep implying that castration should have something to do with books. There is very simple non medical meaning that probably comes from latin, you can find it here https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/castration
- I'm very well read. Enough so that I just smiled at the attempted negging.
- But, I'm curious by nature, so it crosses my mind later. I think "what's up with that? I've never heard it, I'm not infallible, and maybe bgandrew was for real and just is unfamiliar with conversational norms? maybe he has seen it in his extremely wide reading corpus that exceeds mine? I'm not infallible and I, like everyone else, have inflated opinions of myself. And that other account did say it was a definition of it..."
- Went through top 500 results on books.google.com for castration, none meant "removed from a book"
- Was a bit surprised to find _0_ results over 500. I think to myself...where was that definition from? Surely it wasn't a rushed strawman?
- It turns out the attempted bullying is much more funny than it even first seemed.
- That definition of castration is from an 1893 dictionary. The only times that definition is in Google's entire corpus, search and books, is A) in the 1893 dictionary B) academic paper on puns, explaining that no one understands it that way anymore because its archaic https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/mod.2021.0351?...