Marion's Weblog

I just received an email in which the sender said that if we agreed to support either version then her argument about why we had to use a particular version was a mute point. I always thought that the phrase was moot point. So I looked it up and found an interesting description of how the phrase has evolved here.

Comments:

You're right. It's moot. People that use "mute" also tend to ask people to be more "pacific" (specific). ;)

Posted by ThinGuy on April 04, 2005 at 12:05 PM PDT #

That is a good one. I've also heard people ask me to flush out the proposal when they mean flesh out the proposal

Posted by Marion on April 04, 2005 at 12:15 PM PDT #

It's all a moo point.

that is if you are Friends follower

http://www.friends-tv.org/zz708.html

Posted by Dan Lacher on April 04, 2005 at 12:26 PM PDT #

Not to mention that people say "literally" when what they describe is actually figurative, i.e. "My jaw literally dropped to the floor!" Really? That must have been painful.

Posted by Brian Utterback on April 05, 2005 at 05:57 AM PDT #

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