A resemblance

Jon Hamm

Gary Cooper

Semantics

I'm tired of people saying 'that's just semantics' in disagreements as a way to lessen tension. It's basically saying 'oh, it's only a matter of what you meant by those words you said.' Semantics is all about what words mean, so clearly that's going to matter when people talk.

Semantics: a big deal, whether we admit it or not.

That'll be the title of the next book about semantics that I write.

I'll write that one right after my Sue Grafton/Isaac Asimov mashup novel I is for Robot.

Lambda is not the same as Alpha

I often wonder how Kia cars are marketed in Greece. After all, their logo uses a Λ instead of an A. Λ is the Greek L. In my head ΚΙΛ sounds like 'kill', although it might be more like 'keel'. I don't know modern Greek.

Anyway, this happens quite a bit all over the place, though usually it doesn't make a pronounceable word. But it's always a little irritating. To me.