'Raids', really?

[Viridiana]

so you don't believe in using thesauruses huh? that explains a good deal of this; duck is a noun your analogy does not fit.

Try again?

In response to your edit. . . I'm not allowed to compare nouns to nouns now?

[Bled]

In response to your edit. . . I'm not allowed to compare nouns to nouns now?

thesaurus each and see if they fit?

[Viridiana]

Raid

–noun
1.
a sudden assault or attack, as upon something to be seized or suppressed:

AND

–verb (used with object)
5.
to make a raid on.

thesaurus for raid and then for duck

Let's go back to your original quote, before you edited:

so you don't believe in using thesauruses huh? that explains a good deal of this. Raid is an adjective duck is a noun your analogy does not fit.

. . . so, how the flying hell does my analogy not fit?

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, ****s like a duck, it's a parakeet!

Wait, no, it's a ****ing duck. Call it a duck, ffs. . .

If it functions like a raid, has loot like a raid, plays like a raid, it's an invasion!

Wait, no, it's a ****ing raid. Call it a raid, ffs. . .

[Bled]

Let's go back to your original quote, before you edited:



. . . so, how the flying hell does my analogy not fit?



If it functions like a raid, has loot like a raid, plays like a raid, it's an invasion!

Wait, no, it's a ****ing raid. Call it a raid, ffs. . .

A duck is a waterbird with a broad blunt bill, short legs, webbed feet, and a waddling gait.

can not also be referred by any other word unless you are specifying species.

A raid is:
Verb: Conduct a raid on: "officers raided thirty homes".
Noun: A rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces in warfare.

But can also be referred to as foray, assault, incursion and so on.

So with the above said there is no correlation to you analogy.

But this is so far off point from all the flaming over a few people requesting a name change there's a whole forum out there one thread requesting something minoot is not the end of the world.

[Viridiana]

A duck is a waterbird with a broad blunt bill, short legs, webbed feet, and a waddling gait.

A raid is:
Verb: Conduct a raid on: "officers raided thirty homes".
Noun: A rapid surprise attack on an enemy by troops, aircraft, or other armed forces in warfare.

But can also be referred to as foray, assault, incursion and so on.

But this is so far off point from all the flaming over a few people requesting a name change.

. . .Are you at all familiar with the saying I'm using? Or is this just a case of obfuscating stupidity?

[Bled]

. . .Are you at all familiar with the saying I'm using? Or is this just a case of obfuscating stupidity?

I understand the saying you just used it wrong... do you understand what a pontificating dildo is?

[Viridiana]

A duck is a waterbird with a broad blunt bill, short legs, webbed feet, and a waddling gait.

can not also be referred by any other word unless you are specifying species.

You sure? 'Cause you just called it a waterbird. You could also have just called it a bird. Those're both other words that can refer to a duck, without specifying a species.

I'm also curious how an inanimate object can pontificate, but that's a topic for a different discussion, I guess. . .

[Bled]

You sure? 'Cause you just called it a waterbird. You could also have just called it a bird. Those're both other words that can refer to a duck, without specifying a species.

I'm also curious how an inanimate object can pontificate, but that's a topic for a different discussion, I guess. . .

I know this rarely happens on the forums but you sir are right and i was wrong your analogy applies, and my grammar was atrocious (partly rushed/agitated). However i still do not agree with only calling something by one definition if there is another that can be used and one has a negative stigma attached.

[Morticous]

Why cant we all just stand up... Crank up some "Germs" and mosh the hate out of our systems.. at least for a little while..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwRucMUjLw

[Viridiana]

Why cant we all just stand up... Crank up some "Germs" and mosh the hate out of our systems.. at least for a little while..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWwRucMUjLw

Kinda catchy. Not something I'd listen to every day, though.