or make a separate thread. I'd rather just finish this debate already.

There is no proper definition for a word.

Dictionaries only define standard english words. Plenty of AAVE words are not in official dictionaries yet. It just needs widespread use and understanding among natives.

Explain.

That is exactly what a prefix is meant to do though... Also just because a word has not been used a lot does not mean it does not exist.

Yeah because misconflate is a compound word, not a singular one. Also Just because a term isn't defined in a dictionary does not mean it doesn't exist.

I don't know shit about english so in this particular case you're probably correct. However I have doubt that you actually even know shit about linguistics, because knowledge in a field is required in order to debate properly.

Give me examples.

I'm not trying to troll anyone or ruin mastercomfig. Where did you get that claim?

(Why did I ask this question in this forum to begin with? I should have just went on a language forum...)

While I have no credibility on this topic, since I have not studied english at a high level, I can say the same thing to you and everyone in this thread, because I have not seen any proof that y'all are credible on the topic of english.

How so? By the logic you imply, using words with multiple meanings (such as: arm, watch, and date) would make the meaning more vague, which isn't always the case so long as you specify the meaning intended.

It's not always a good idea to rely on the implication of a word, because that may not always be what people refer to.

For instance if someone were to refer to racism in a general sense (as in the term "racism" alone), they are not just talking about white on black racism; they mean all forms of racism, like white on asian, black on white, white on indian, japanese on hispanic, and other kinds. However the implied meaning is white on black racism, because it's been the most prevalent form of racism, so the person may only or mostly think of white on black racism.

News corporations often use the implied meanings of words to manipulate readers into thinking a certain way; this is what I mean when I say it isn't always a good idea to use the implied meaning.

Oh really? What makes you think I suck at english just because I used the flexibility of prefixes?

What credibility do you have on this topic anyway? I don't recall you ever being a linguistics major or studying english.

negative discrimination
miscriminate (to maliciously criminalize)

Yeah about that... Pretty sure prefixes in English work like that mate...

While it's usually fine to do so, it's not always a good idea to rely on connotation though.

In a philosophical argument for instance, the arguer may use conflate to describe words that are often blended together. They do not mean to say whether the blending is good or bad, so they merely say conflation. Conflation is not always to be bad implied bad though, so it is a bad idea to assume that the definition conflation in itself is bad. Thus the use of mis- to specify that a conflation was bad.

Another example is the term discrimination. When discrimination is used, it often refers to negative discrimination (like badly treating certain people). However not all forms of discrimination are negative; some are positive, like treating politicians better than corporations. It's usually fine to treat "discrimination" this way, but in some cases the context needs to be clarified.

NOTE: The corporations aren't being treated any worse, so this technically isn't a case of negative discrimination.

I was questioning if consistency was always good in TF2.

They aren't the same though. To conflate means to blend; mis- is just a prefix for badly. So misconflate is to badly blend, while conflate is to merely blend.

(Who cares though amirite?)

mis- is a prefix that means wrongly or badly, so yes it is a (compound) word.

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There are guides/people that say moving unpredictably is good, and I conflated consistency with predictable movement, but as you said I misconflated those two concepts.

lol

Same. :)

Ah. Technically always dodging is consistent by definition, so it really isn't inconsistent.

I haven't seen anyone else notice that pattern and ask about it, so thanks for the answers.

What are your TF2 mods?

Do you have ragdolls=hidden set?

1. You don't need cleaner or antivirus software; it's easy to dodge malware and protection from the OS is more than enough. They are usually just bloatware.
   
2. Reduce the amount of (mostly heavy-resource) software used while playing TF2.

Not necessarily. In the case of movement, there are people that argue that making your movement inconsistent is good.

I'm not trying to be philosophical. It's just a pattern that I noticed in the TF2 community. The "consistency is important idea" is not just applied in movement; it's also applied in weapon balance (Shortstop trades less close range damage for more consistent damage), and even in games in general.

Yeah that happens a lot and I'm not fond of that behavior.

:/

The existence of mob mentality and Bandwagon fallacy is why I question commonly held beliefs.

Then consistency isn't always good. To be clear I meant "Is consistency always a good thing", not "Is consistency a good thing".