What are they?
Why are they important to discussion?
Are they important?
ready… ready… Go
TARGETS WILL FALL WHEN HIT.
(what are the chances this thread remains unused and to find this discussion I have to go to the “Best knot for military footwear” thread)
References please!
NO director.rr
And to avoid someone quoting tracts from wikipedia, just read the damn thing here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics
But, in summary, semantics is the study of meaning - without semantics, it is impossible to know the meaning of a word/statement/sentence/book, since all it consists of is a jumble of meaningless letters.
A certain “popular” poster on here seems to have his own brand of semantics and uses them liberally to infer bizarre or non-sequitur meanings from quite simple statements, whilst denouncing everyone else’s more conventional use of semantics as “just semantics”, “bullhockey”, and “holy guano, kiddo”.