Pointless semantics

Cranberry · Post by **Cranberry** » September 14th, 2020, 12:32 am

Here are two classic questions to start with:

Is a stack of three bread slices a bread sandwich?

Is Rhode Island a state in Rhode Island (because the borders of the state of Rhode Island are within the borders of the state of Rhode Island)?

LunchBreaker · Post by **LunchBreaker** » September 14th, 2020, 9:48 am

1. According to the dictionary, probably. The way I would define it personally, no, unless the filling is a different bread.
2. Technically, yes. Rhode Island is located entirely within its own borders, so Rhode Island is a state in Rhode Island. (The same could be said for any other state, country, or town.)

ChiefExecutive · Post by **ChiefExecutive** » September 15th, 2020, 7:08 pm

1.If one independent bungalow is considered a colony.
2.No because if you mean the island then its itself and if you mean the state its also itself.

shpritz · Post by **shpritz** » September 15th, 2020, 8:13 pm

My head is swimming. Does that mean I am in a swimming pool?

Cranberry · Post by **Cranberry** » September 16th, 2020, 2:13 pm

shpritz wrote: ↑September 15th, 2020, 8:13 pm My head is swimming. Does that mean I am in a swimming pool?

No, if anything, it means you are a swimming pool.

blank · Post by **blank** » October 22nd, 2020, 6:35 pm

Cranberry wrote: ↑September 14th, 2020, 12:32 am Here are two classic questions to start with:

Is a stack of three bread slices a bread sandwich?

Is Rhode Island a state in Rhode Island (because the borders of the state of Rhode Island are within the borders of the state of Rhode Island)?

Yes, according to the dictionary, a sandwich is someone or something between someone or something.

Cranberry · Post by **Cranberry** » October 25th, 2020, 12:58 am

A group hug is a sandwich?

virtuosointraining · October 25th, 2020, 1:16 pm

sand•wich (ˈsænd wɪtʃ, ˈsæn-)

n.
1. two or more slices of bread or the like with a layer of meat, fish, cheese, etc., between them.
2. something that resembles or suggests a sandwich: a plywood sandwich.

Cranberry · Post by **Cranberry** » October 25th, 2020, 3:18 pm

A group hug is a sandwich.

LunchBreaker · Post by **LunchBreaker** » November 3rd, 2020, 1:39 pm

Was Grover Cleveland really the 22nd and 24th president just because his terms weren't consecutive? He was still just one person.

virtuosointraining · November 3rd, 2020, 4:13 pm

He was the 22nd president. His successor was the 23d. At his second term he remained the 22nd, so the president after him should be considered the 24th.