Conversation KillersThatNiceMan asks: Have you ever been talking with people down the pub when somebody throws such a complete curveball (Sample WTF moment: "I wonder what it's like to get bummed") that all talk is stopped dead? Tell us!
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 May 2011, 12:53)
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I'm not sure he was trying to justify what he said.Explain it, perhaps. Defend it, even. But neither of those amounts to an attempt at justification.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 18 May 2011, 15:47,
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I would posit that explaining + defending = something not dissimilar to "attempting to justify" but we should probably take it to the OED rather than bore people with bickering over semantics.(
Zuowan, Wed 18 May 2011, 16:07,
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