Semantics

se·man·tics

Dictionary result for semantics

/səˈman(t)iks/

noun

1. the branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of meaning.

   • the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text.

     plural noun: semantics

     "such quibbling over semantics may seem petty stuff"

Words matter!

I'm getting particularly tired of hearing the F-bomb, particularly in public from adults who have no regard for children or others who may be overhearing what words are carelessly coming out of their mouths.

You can hear it most anywhere. Every few days, I can overhear a couple of my co-workers jawing down the hall, dropping in an F-bomb seemingly every third word. The sound carries very well down the halls of our office, so you can't help but overhear it, and it's particularly annoying when I'm on the phone with a customer who can, likewise, hear it quite well, too.

I don't know why people do this. They use the F-bomb for every conceivable part of speech: not only interjections, but also nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, and probably all of the others. It's not only annoying and crude, it's just plain lazy speech.

Though it may seem like quibbling over petty stuff ... just my thoughts for today.

That's all I have to say about that.