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Chris -- 2011-03-08
This odd word combines ‘semantics’ and ‘sermon.’ Semantics, in the colloquial sense, is an excessive concern with the proper form of expression. Like sermonizing, it connotes a preachy and self-righteous attitude, making the combination a natural. 180+ ghits, e.g.,
Life is NOT sermantics its real.
www.planetjitsu.com/viewtopic.php?t=124 … =8c06f2467
my point is, look for the positive understanding rather than getting lost in
sermantics.
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with all due respect, and as others’ have already mentioned, The rest is surely
just sermantics/pedantry.
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Could everyone stop the one upmanship and sermantics game.
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