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Using a language dictionary to argue your points, to justify your actions, and/or to claim that all uses of a given word outside of a given dictionary are incorrect. Fallacious as English dictionaries do not prescribe usage, but merely describe how words are used by society.
Person 1: Stop treating your 35 year old son like a child. He's not a child anymore.
Person 2: But the dictionary says so. *pulls out Oxford* A child is "a son or daughter of any age". My 35 year old is my son, therefore he is a child. That means my 35 year old is not ready to watch anything but G rated movies, cannot drink beer, must obey my commands at all times, isn't old enough for a job, and...
Person 1: Classic argumentum ad dictionarium.
Person 2: But the dictionary says so. *pulls out Oxford* A child is "a son or daughter of any age". My 35 year old is my son, therefore he is a child. That means my 35 year old is not ready to watch anything but G rated movies, cannot drink beer, must obey my commands at all times, isn't old enough for a job, and...
Person 1: Classic argumentum ad dictionarium.
by udusers1 August 18, 2016
Get the argumentum ad dictionariummug. "Japanese people are of the devil because they don't conform to our standards!"
"Keep your children away from this show because it shows animals having emotions and is therefore satanic!"
"9/11 was caused because there are gay people!"
"Praise be top God for killing all of this ethnic group!"
Ever heard of "Judge not"? Bunch of religious idiots.
"Keep your children away from this show because it shows animals having emotions and is therefore satanic!"
"9/11 was caused because there are gay people!"
"Praise be top God for killing all of this ethnic group!"
Ever heard of "Judge not"? Bunch of religious idiots.
by udusers1 August 22, 2011
Get the religious idiotsmug. People who stalk you on sites such as Urban Dictionary and give thumbs down to every single one of your posts and definitions.
by udusers1 July 16, 2011
Get the thumbs down stalkermug. Anything but a dictionary.
by udusers1 April 12, 2011
Get the urban dictionarymug. by udusers1 September 14, 2010
Get the cleveland steamermug. A subject that everyone must pass to show that you can do things that are completely irrelevant to exercise.
Boss: All you need to do is say 1+1 and you can do this job easily, no exercise involved.
Applicant: OK, I can count.
Boss: Excellent, do you have a physical education diploma?
Applicant: No.
Boss: Sorry, even though exercise has absolutely nothing to do with this job, you can't get in unless you exercised in school.
*5 years later*
Applicant (now homeless): I could do everything that a job wanted, but I got rejected because I didn't exercise.
Applicant: OK, I can count.
Boss: Excellent, do you have a physical education diploma?
Applicant: No.
Boss: Sorry, even though exercise has absolutely nothing to do with this job, you can't get in unless you exercised in school.
*5 years later*
Applicant (now homeless): I could do everything that a job wanted, but I got rejected because I didn't exercise.
by udusers1 December 17, 2010
Get the physical educationmug. Americans born during the Generation X and Generation Y (Millennial) overlap, generally 1977-1983. They can either be viewed as tail-end Generation Xers or very early Millennials, but some members prefer to be addressed as neither. Named after The Oregon Trail, an educational computer game fondly remembered by many born during these years. Also known as Xennials or Generation Catalano.
Person 1: "Are you a Millennial or Generation Xer?"
Person born in 1981: I'm part of the Oregon Trail generation.
Person born in 1981: I'm part of the Oregon Trail generation.
by udusers1 October 25, 2017
Get the Oregon Trail generationmug.