01-10-2015, 02:54 AM | #76 |
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I think people need to be less pedantic with dictionary definitions and be pragmatic. Advertisements on television are technically a bonus, but no one considers them so. The preview of the next episode at the end of the current episode might technically be a bonus, but no one considers them so.
If people still want to keep thumping their dictionaries, feel free to do so. I refuse to consider excerpts from the next book a bonus feature. |
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You don't consider excerpts a bonus?... Cool beans. No problem in the world with that. You think calling an excerpt "bonus material" is "lying?"... Bullspit. Gonna call ya (rhet.) on it. |
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This has to be one of the all-time silliest threads.
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Sadly, you are wrong. This one here takes the cake: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=245813
Especially as it was proven factually incorrect in a purely objective sense (see post #11). Hmm, it too was started by JSWolf... Last edited by eschwartz; 01-11-2015 at 12:50 AM. |
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As far as I am concerned, a "bonus" is:
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Being as the word "bonus" is Yet Another One of these "subjective" concepts... subjectivity is really the only way you can ever meaningfully define it. And as long as it can subjectively fit the definition (and it does fit that definition enough times that we can become aware of that selection) then it is a bonus in a general sense. Whether it is a bonus in a personal sense, remains entirely within the control of the individual person (because I am not going to tell you what you are and aren't allowed to like) but is also completely irrelevant in any matter stretching beyond that one individual. Verdict: If you are going to rant objectively about it online (by definition this is any time you aren't specifically referring to your opinion about the matter), it had better be a universally accepted opinion, and my first question will be "where is your data that this is true in an objective sense". Speaking of which, back to this: Quote:
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Bonus is not a bonus
I can't believe how pedantic some of you get...
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You just know that salaried people would stop thumping the dictionary when they get boiled confectionary as their annual "bonus" at work. You would see the pedantry wooshing out the window in real time.
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Assuming it is indeed a "bonus" according to Pedant Law, the employers have the right to call it that... and the employees have the right to consider it as a valueless "bonus", on a personal level. I think my explanation does a lot to clarify things though. There is an obvious reason why excerpts fit the definition of "bonus", and it also serves to explain why boiled confectionery "bonuses" are not. |
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