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Originally Posted by nguirado
I was using "explicit" in the sense that the movie had sex scenes. I don't see this as a "lie."
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On that basis, MobileRead has explicit descriptions of how to remove DRM.
It does, after all, mention de-DRMing books. People will tell you what to search for on Google. They will tell you what blogs to read. But it is in fact against the rules of MR to say exactly
how to go about it -- that is, to post
explicit instructions on how to remove DRM. So, using the word as other people use it ... no, just a mention of something, whether it's the human body or DRM removal instructions, is
not the same thing as explicitly showing that thing.
When you use up a word like "explicit" to mean "implicit" then what word do you use when you really
mean explicit? I've never seen
Nine 1/2 Weeks, but it's only rated R, and I've seen movies that go beyond X into ... well, whatever's beyond X. So what would you call them? What would you call, say,
Debbie Does Dallas?
That's why we have dictionaries and formal definitions: it keeps us all on the same page, and pins down words so they don't squirm around when we try to use them. That way everyone knows what's being talked about, instead of someone saying "well, it was some other meaning you didn't know about."