Re: Fun Pairs -- mute point vs. moot point

Subject: Re: Fun Pairs -- mute point vs. moot point
From: Tracy Boyington <tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:10:03 -0500

Sherman,Diane R wrote:

> my friend (who is no legend; we worked together for years) did not coin
> any new words or terms.
>
> all she said is that the term "moot point" is the opposite of "mute
> point." she must have meant that it's acceptable to use "moot point"
> for the "debatable" definition and "mute point" for the "irrelevant"
> definition.

But she *did* coin a term. If she took an existing definition and
applied it to a "new" phrase (actually a mangled version of an old
phrase), she coined a term.

Tracy

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