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Subject:Re: Fun Pairs -- mute point vs. moot point From:Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG> Date:Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:10:03 -0500
Sherman,Diane R wrote:
> my friend (who is no legend; we worked together for years) did not coin
> any new words or terms.
>
> all she said is that the term "moot point" is the opposite of "mute
> point." she must have meant that it's acceptable to use "moot point"
> for the "debatable" definition and "mute point" for the "irrelevant"
> definition.
But she *did* coin a term. If she took an existing definition and
applied it to a "new" phrase (actually a mangled version of an old
phrase), she coined a term.
Tracy
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Oklahoma Department of Vocational and Technical Education
Stillwater, OK, USA http://www.okvotech.org/cimc/home.htm
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