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We met Ed Toll from this band downtown while taking a stroll, and he let me take his photo, so I'm saving the link so I can add it to the photo caption.
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to raise trivial and frivolous objection
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to evade the point of an argument by caviling about words
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In this new era of civility, I can’t for the life of me figure out why you would include those two definitions. Then again, I had a chip implanted in my brain that permenantly blocks out anything to do with politics. Wil
I bookmarked both of them because I’ve always had a concept of what quibble meant, but I discovered that it’s a bit more specific than my general impression. It’s specifically about nitpicking people’s use of language to avoid the point, rather than just nitpicking small points in general.