• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Semantics matter!!!

    Semantics are about the meaning of words, and how the meaning can be changed drastically by minor changes of a sentence or the sequence of words that have similar meaning? Semantics are important, even if the above poster believe they aren’t.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantics

    Formal semantics seeks to identify domain-specific mental operations which speakers perform when they compute a sentence’s meaning

    That’s exactly the case here? The words have similar meaning, but the sentences do not, both because of the cultural origin, and the sequence of the words actually matter.

    Edit: I was originally a bit confused, because the above post uses the word semantics contrary to the meaning. I guess that can be expected for people who just in general don’t get it.

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      1 year ago

      It’s clearly saying they don’t care about the difference, not just saying it’s a semantic difference.

      It’s a reply in bad faith and a very transparent one at that

      • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Thanks ;).

        I have noticed the word tends to seemingly be used in that way, and have corrected my post to describe that semantics actually matter.