What does it mean?
Hi!
And what's its meaning in 'Are you on?'
So, if I want to ask someone, whether (s)he wants to join me in doing sth or participate in sth, I can ask 'Are you on?'
Hi, again
My friend proposes me to go, for instance, to a cafe. If I'm ready to visit it, can I say 'You're on!', meaning 'ok'?
David L. said:Perhaps it takes a lot more courage to venture out of one's home to a cafe in certain parts of the USA, such as Boston, than in Britain generally.;-)
David L. said:Perhaps we have more fun with words than some Americans.
How better to duck and obfuscate than throw a website of a philosopher's understanding of logic at me.
Draw on this by all means, but please, if you wish to disagree, choose your own words ...or is this one more example of the lack of self-expressiveness I was referring to - and you now confirm by your deed (certainly not by words!!!)
By this stage in the proceedings, we are both calling each other 'fool' and no good will come out of this.
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Let Heaven and Webmaster forgive me, but I cannot resist:
The accusation that I have called anyone fool here is another logical fallacy
Language has two forms of logic: the objective, and the implied.
How presumptuous of me to imply that you have thought I was a fool - not outright "illogical", but certainly presumptuous.
I wrote:
By this stage in the proceedings, we are both calling each other 'fool'
See past my "illogical" presumption - how kind, I am not a fool in your eyes - and the reader is left with a statement of the "logical" deduction that has been drawn by the speaker as to the other party.
Oh, how the British relish implied logic.
The point of all this: does it ever occur to you that language is more than cold words on a page; that it has a subjective vibrancy of context and subtext and innuendo that transcends pure philosophical logic? How can you, if you purport to be such a defender of objective logic, be satisfied with any...any...blurring of meaning in the use of words that then calls for fuzzy 'subjective' interpretation??