It looks to me as if that particular dictionary definition reserves "partisan" for the very things I label, with more than a little hyperbole but my excuse is that I was having fun, as "sins".
Exactly. Last night I was using the term the way Webster does. I was surprised when you opted to embrace the label, partisan, which is most definitely not a compliment.
A good deal of the conflict we find here is a function of differing uses of words, seems to me, and not making an effort to clarify.
I am an advocate of various issues that matter to me, but I am definitely non-partisan in that I can't abide any of the parties. From the little I've read of you, I get the impression that you do associate with a party, but that doing so hasn't destroyed your curiosity, your collegiality, nor your brain cells. Which would make you neither partisan nor non-partisan, according to Webster's, a very odd kind of verbal limbo. <g> |
