aa5874

It is not really true that a "report" suggest observation. A report can suggest what one has heard, and further a "report" can be completely false.

Now, it is absolutely true that a "report" or a "story" is either invented or true.

A "report" or a "story" that anyone was castrated was either invented or true at anytime in the history of mankind on earth.

Amaleq13

From dictionary.com:

report

1. an account or statement describing in detail an event, situation, or the like, usually as the result of observation, inquiry, etc.

Emphasis mine.

Jeffrey Gibson

Perhaps you'd let the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary know this so that they can eliminate from the pages of their work their note that the noun "report" has been used since at least the 1400s with, and bears, the meaning:

Quote:

An account brought by one person to another, esp. of some matter specially investigated.

And that the verb "report" means:

Jeffrey

aa5874

Why didn't you write all the meanings of "report"? There are posters with dictionaries that can look up "report".

This is the new lexicon webster's: "report"--something reported, esp. a formal account of what has been SAID, seen, or done---an UNSUBSTANTIATED item of information or news.

It is NOT really true that "report" suggests "observation", it can suggest unsubstantiated information that may be false.

Jeffrey Gibson

There are posters who do not own dictionaries who can do so as well.


Are you actually saying that "report" never suggests "observation", let alone that your Websters denies this?

Jeffrey

Amaleq13

Had you done this, perhaps you would not have made such a blatantly false assertion.

Your own reference denies your ridiculous claim!! :rolling:

The word can also refer to "---an unsubstantiated item of information or news." but that is clearly not the primary meaning.

Then you can't read English very well because both entries (mine and yours) include the idea of observation when initially defining the word. :banghead:

Quit while you behind. Again.