Stephen
I refute that with every fibre of my being. The actual answer is a field –
Jeremy
No, you can’t refute. That’s bad grammar, that, Stephen. To refute, you have to provide evidence.
Stephen
Yes…
Jeremy
You mean “rebut”.
Stephen
No, I mean “repudiate”.
Jeremy
Fair enough.
Stephen
Yeah. But a good point. Very good point.
Jeremy
If you weren’t… if you weren’t showing off, you could have said “reject”.
Stephen
Yes, indeed. You’re absolutely right. Though it’s not bad grammar, is it? It’s just bad semantics.
Jeremy
Yeah, whatever.
Stephen
Yeah. Yeah. But, er… yeah. No, I stand… I stand hideously corrected and shamed.
Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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