It seems that on Jyte there's always a few idiots who will disagree with something demonstrably true

By 3 King-Billy Offsuit on September 02, 2007

I expect this claim itself to become one example

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6 Prunella who disagreed, says

:-p

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9 Glad Rag Kraken who disagreed, says

I take issue with the word 'few'. It connotates a much smaller percentage of contrarians than actually exist.

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4 Tad Duncan who disagreed, says

The number of people disagreeing will show that this claim is not "demonstratably true."

Hell, "demonstratably" isn't even a word... you meant "demonstratively."

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5 inverseclipse who hasn't voted, says

Or "demonstrably" is fine, too.

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3 King-Billy Offsuit who agreed, says

lol, tad

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=demonstratably

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Did you mean demonstrably (in dictionary)?
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3 King-Billy Offsuit who agreed, says

This is a word I came across a lot in books, articles, etc on science topics. It means that it can be demonstrated. What I'm saying is that people will disagree with things that can be shown to be true quite easily

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3 Chron who agreed, says

Yeah, and "demonstrable" and "demonstrative" have somewhat different meanings.

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5 Ralph Leyland who hasn't voted, says

Methinks Tad misread the claim.

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4 Tad Duncan who disagreed, says

I just thought that "demonstratably" would sound more like "demonstratively" than "demonstrably"... how should I know which one he was going for?

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3 Chron who agreed, says

Context?

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4 Tad Duncan who disagreed, says

It definitely said "demonstratably" when I read it this morning... of course, I may have been slightly hung over.

But, in typical American fashion, I am right and somehow he found a way to edit the claim text after I pointed out his error.

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3 King-Billy Offsuit who agreed, says

hahaha, clever :P

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7 Cobra Baghdad who disagreed, says

I disagree with the statement that they're idiots. Also, not all claims that are demonstrably true are to all people. I think idiots post "demostrably true" claims without posting any description and then act like assholes when people disagree.

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7 Kara needs a vacation who agreed, says

Oh come ON people. No one is going to pick on him for saying "there's" instead of "they're"? I'm totally disappointed.

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3 King-Billy Offsuit who agreed, says

Who me? In the claim? what?

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7 Kara needs a vacation who agreed, says

Yes. They *are* always a few idiots. Psha. :P

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7 Kara needs a vacation who agreed, says

Foo. There are, not they are.

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3 King-Billy Offsuit who agreed, says

Yeah, I realize "there's" ("there is") doesn't match in number with "a few", but the the "they're" confused me there

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5 Ralph Leyland who hasn't voted, says

"There're"?

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4 Tad Duncan who disagreed, says

+1 with Ralph

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