@hawkeye10,
hawkeye10 wrote:
Quote:Quote:I am betting that David was more rigorous when he was younger. A Mensa Lawyer? Come on!
U win the bet. I was a pretty conservative practitioner
would u kindly leave a bread trail for how rigorous becomes conservative?
I would like to think that I am good at English but maybe not, cause I dont get it.
Sure. I 've gone thru this b4. I used to have a word processing file on this, but I lost it in a
fire.
I don t mind doing it over:
liberal n conservative r both
RELATIVE words
having meaning
only in reference to a designated body of rules, customs or agreements.
Thay both address the amount of tolerated DEVIATION from that body of rules.
A conservative applies the rules
rigorously, i.e.,
non-deviantly with
fidelity and with
no distortion.
He is
not swayn by a sob story. He rigidly, obsessively applies
Orthodox narrow logic, not emotions
to factual circumstances that confront him. He is guided in his choices by traditional precedent.
An
accurate accountant has perfect loyalty to the rules of competent bookkeeping.
A liberal is not obsessive about accurate application of the rules; thay
don t impress him too much.
He is more likely to be loose and ez (i.e., the
OPPOSITE of "rigorous") in his decision-making
regarding those rules, toward which he is
not fanatically loyal.
I knew a bus driver who said that in his line of work,
punctuality
was observed; the buses went out on time.
Drivers, he said, had a 1 minute grace period qua arrival to work.
After that, their buses were re-assigned to other drivers and the late guys were sent home.
A liberal time-keeper might apply the criterion
less rigorously giving them double the grace period.
An even
less rigorous,
MORE liberal time-keeper might give them half an hour (
screw the schedule!).
A radical (i.e. "from the root") time-keeper might pay them even if thay
never arrived; (most
un-rigorous).
Many posters to A2K r very distortively
liberal in regard to interpretation of the US Constitution,
yet thay r fiercely, indignantly conservative qua paradigmatic spelling
and such folks mocked Teddy Roosevelt b4 thay mocked
ME,
in regard to fonetic spelling.
Lemme know if u have any questions.
rigorous
[rig-er-uh s]
adjective
1. characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules,
or discipline: rigorous laws.
2.
severely exact or
accurate; precise: rigorous research.
3.(of weather or climate) uncomfortably severe or harsh; extremely inclement.
4. Logic, Mathematics. logically valid.
David