Sounds like Humpty Dumpty logic, actually.
"When I use a word, it means precisely what I mean it to mean, no more,
no less."
That really helps, now, doesn't it?
Karen Lewellen writes:
> wrong again,
> My definition as it was my question involving my situation is numberone in
> the only dictionary that mattershere.
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:
>
> >Karen Lewellen writes:
> >>nope,
> >>suggest means well suggest.
> >>if the question had been or if there had been no question,
> >>a recommendation might have be considered as to have been implied.
> >
> >Well, let's try the dictionary. May I suggest Wordnet's #1, #3, and
> >possibly #5 would apply as well.
> >
> >May I also note that your interpretation is #2 on the word list order,
> >and mine is #1?
> >
> >dict suggest
> >3 definitions found
> >
> >>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
> >
> > Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suggested}; p. pr. &
> > vb. n. {Suggesting}.] [L. suggestus, p. p. of suggerere to
> > put under, furnish, suggest; sub under + gerere to carry, to
> > bring. See {Jest}.]
> > 1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be
> > thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
> >
> > Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all
> > the ways of sensation and reflection. --Locke.
> >
> > 2. To propose with difference or modesty; to hint; to
> > intimate; as, to suggest a difficulty.
> >
> > 3. To seduce; to prompt to evil; to tempt. [Obs.]
> >
> > Knowing that tender youth is soon suggested. --Shak.
> >
> > 4. To inform secretly. [Obs.]
> >
> > Syn: To hint; allude to; refer to; insinuate.
> >
> >>From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
> >
> > Suggest \Sug*gest"\, v. i.
> > To make suggestions; to tempt. [Obs.]
> >
> > And ever weaker grows through acted crime, Or
> > seeming-genial, venial fault, Recurring and suggesting
> > still. --Tennyson.
> >
> >>From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
> >
> > suggest
> > v 1: make a proposal, declare a plan for something [syn:
> >{propose},
> > {advise}]
> > 2: imply as a possibility; "The evidence suggests a need for
> > more clarification" [syn: {intimate}]
> > 3: drop a hint; intimate by a hint [syn: {hint}]
> > 4: suggest the necessity of an intervention; in medicine;
> > "Tetracycline is indicated in such cases" [syn: {indicate}]
> > [ant: {contraindicate}]
> > 5: call to mind or evoke [syn: {evoke}, {paint a picture}]
> >
> >>assuming one is reading more into the he sentence than needful, as you
> >>seem
> >>to have been doing.
> >>That the word suggestion was used, and as a question, was not or does not
> >>to me imply a recommendation.
> >>It was directed to me.
> >>Karen
> >>as Miss Teach
> >
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