Comment by Dylan16807

They were never my terms. They were the terms from the people that were having a nice conversation before you interrupted.

You told them they were wrong, that it could go either way.

That's not true.

What they were talking about cannot go either way.

You were never talking about the same thing as them. I gave you the benefit of the doubt by thinking you were trying to talk about the same thing as them. Apparently I shouldn't have.

You can't win this on definitions. They were talking about a thing without using formal definitions, and you replied to them with your own unrelated talk, as if it was what they meant. No. You don't get to change what they meant.

That's why I argued against your definition. Your definition is lovely in some other conversation. Your definition is not what they meant, and cannot override what they meant.