Quote Originally Posted by Huntington View Post
Without lowering this to an argument of semantics, anyone that speaks English wouldn't need to doubt the veracity of the two words being used in a simple fashion unless they wanted to make an argument over it in the first place.
No. You need to understand this.

Alexander the Great was not named that because he was decent. The Great Wall of China is not named as such because it was 'adequate.' They were named as such because they were exceptional, above the normal, and far beyond 'decent.'

This isn't semantics. This is either you backpedaling from a mistake, or displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of basic English vocabulary, both as a dictionary example and as it is commonly used in normal speech.