I've never understood the complaint that something is "just semantics", or "you're arguing semantics".
If someone can't argue based on the meaning of the words in a piece of text, what else can they argue about? The grammar? The spelling? Surely we _only_ want arguments based on semantics!
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I've never understood the complaint that something is "just semantics", or "you're arguing semantics".
If someone can't argue based on the meaning of the words in a piece of text, what else can they argue about? The grammar? The spelling? Surely we _only_ want arguments based on semantics!
The meaning of the sentence as a whole. "Just semantics" is used when you hinge your argument on the subtleties of meaning of one word.
Lexis and code generation, I guess