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[Richmond]

On 04/24/2013 10:38 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richmond <richmondmathewson at ...> writes:
>
>> that "thing" word is semantically empty as well.
> "thing" is by design semantically empty. It's an agnostic placeholder, as in
> definition 2 here:
>
> <http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/thing>
>

And maybe "issues" in the way people seem to be using it hereabouts is 
an agnostic something
designed by a political-correctness committee.

I understand the following:

to issue. verb. as in "the effluvium was issuing from the noxious end of 
the cow"

an issue. noun. as in "have you seen the latest issue of 'The Magnet'?"

I also understand the standard definitions of the words 'problem', 
'difficulty' and 'disagreement'
all of which my putative committee would seem to want to replace with 
their word "issues" as
a way of signalling the same without potentially causing offence.

Richmond.