Date: Mon, 26 Aug 1996 13:35:59 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: julian@current1.whistle.com (Julian Elischer), chuckr@glue.umd.edu, freebsd-chat@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: new gcc Message-ID: <9059.841091759@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Aug 1996 12:23:53 PDT." <199608261923.MAA23022@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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[Redirected towards -chat at warp speed] > Everyone says "it's a moot point" to mean "it's not worthy of discussion" > when they are trying to sound intellectual. Look it up -- "moot" means > "subject to discussion". You look it up, and use a more modern dictionary this time! :-) More recent ones list `moot' as also having the meaning you're deriding here, though I'd have been more inclined to describe that as "for which further discussion would be superfluous" rather than "not worthy of discussion", something which makes a value judgment I've never heard associated with the word "moot." Anyway, we already had all this out in -hackers about 2 months ago, someone looked it up in a recently updated dictionary and cited the *full* entry for it, and the conclusion then was that both definitions were acceptable, so I guess the point is moot. :-) Jordan
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