Trump Claims He Will Debate Biden 'ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE'
Trump Claims He Will Debate Biden 'ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE'

Trump Claims He Will Debate Biden 'ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE'

Trump Claims He Will Debate Biden 'ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE'
Trump Claims He Will Debate Biden 'ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, ANYPLACE'
Right. But no boxing took place.
Well, like I said, that's your opinion. A bit dense in my own opinion, but if it's yours, it's yours.
What does the word debate mean to you?
Edit for clarity: In the context of a formal, moderated event.
Debate means to me what it means to you. Whatever the dictionary says.
Informally I guess it's an event in which two or more parties have a side in an argument, and they intend to prove that their side is the right one.
If I were to define it off the top of my head, I'd say it means a mutually respectful argument.
That being said, your comment rang a bell: A couple weeks ago I stumbled across descriptive and prescriptive linguistics. I'd mostly forgotten about it, but it's super relevant here.
The basic idea according to descriptivists is that laguage is living and a words meaning can change based on how it's being used by native speakers as a whole. Meanwhile prescriptivists insist on rules and grammar.
Or in other words; We're both right.
I'm using the word debate as it's typically used to describe a mutually respectful discussion of differing opinions, wheras you're coming from a more by the books, black and white stance.
I found this video on Youtube that ultimately posits descriptivism works better for speech, perscriptivism works better for writing. I agree, and Social media is a little bit of both.
It's an interesting watch at around 7 minutes long: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih0UqZ7O7Cg
Merriam-Webster has a decent write up on it too: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/descriptive-vs-prescriptive-defining-lexicography
It does come off a bit pointed, imo, but I found that most sources unfortunately do.
Cool! We're both right, then.
Have a nice Friday!