Hey, you looked in a better dictionary :-) But that was one of my points: wiktionary represents how ordinary volunteers from the Internet (not linguists) understand the word -- and indeed, their understanding is skewed.
I suspect that an ethical disagreement might hide somewhere here -- let me try to check it. What, in your opinion, is more ethically wrong: 1) To steal someone's brand new laptop and sell it on eBay, or 2) To steal someone's brand new laptop and destroy it?
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Date: 7/3/09 07:42 pm (UTC)From:But that was one of my points: wiktionary represents how ordinary volunteers from the Internet (not linguists) understand the word -- and indeed, their understanding is skewed.
I suspect that an ethical disagreement might hide somewhere here -- let me try to check it. What, in your opinion, is more ethically wrong:
1) To steal someone's brand new laptop and sell it on eBay, or
2) To steal someone's brand new laptop and destroy it?