• Peaty@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    What does arguing pedantics mean? Note pedantics isn't a word.

    Yes the UN codes regarding war crimes.

    • stevedidWHAT@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Arguing pedantics = conversational way of saying that you are being pedantic.

      Define terrorism not war crimes, obviously. Nobody was arguing for the definition of war crimes, and just because something isn’t a formal war crime, doesn’t mean it’s not something else (which would possibly include but not limit to only terrorism)

    • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      You know what they meant.

      You are still being pedantic arguing about semantics.

      If you have to obscure your animus behind a veil of linguistics then you don’t actually have one.

      Is that a big enough vocab for you