[tbontob]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I said it was a rant because it was essentially a rehashing of what he said before, and it was an attempt to overwhelm my point with potentially (though not necessarily) true statements that did not actually contradict the point.

No Fyron, if anything, my feelings are you were trying to embarrass him by calling it a rant.

You are the only person on this forum, that I know of, who consistently declares that another person's comments are a rant.

The fact that you are unable to come up with a source which validates your definition leads me to suspect:
a) it is not true
b) if it is true it is colloquial/slang.

My own searches have not come up with a definition which matches yours.

And until you can come up with a definition from a valid and accepted source like Webster’s, Oxford or Cambridge, for your so-called definition, it is at most colloquial/slang.

It is rude and disrespectful to characterize someone’s comments as a rant because you think he has repeated himself.

[ June 03, 2003, 16:29: Message edited by: tbontob ]