Great Quote from Reno SCCA newsletter

[MattR]

And it needs to be addressed...regarding the new RX-8...

...."All of which begs the question (I can’t help myself), “Has
Debbie sworn off SECCS?”


Hahahaha

[MikeSTI]

I vote Debbie can still have SECCS with us I'm sure being one of the founding members its a mute point but wanted to get in on the quote

[dknv]

I emailed Jim yesterday & told him my answer was, 'No, I wan't give up Group SECCS!, !'
Thank Goodness this little group has always welcomed in Any car enthusiast!

[sperry]

Originally Posted by MikeSTI

I vote Debbie can still have SECCS with us I'm sure being one of the founding members its a mute point but wanted to get in on the quote

<pet-peeve alert!>
The word is "moot":

moot

\Moot\, a. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

So a "moot point" is a point that's open for discussion.

[MikeSTI]

Originally Posted by sperry

<pet-peeve alert!>
The word is "moot":

moot

\Moot\, a. Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

So a "moot point" is a point that's open for discussion.

<kiss my a** alert on>
NO Scott the word is "mute"

mute

\Mute\, a. 1. Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.

All the heavenly choir stood mute, And silence was in heaven. --Milton.

Note: In law a prisoner is said to stand mute, when, upon being arranged, he makes no answer, or does not plead directly, or will not put himself on trial.

2. Incapable of speaking; dumb. --Dryden.

3. Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.

4. Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.

Mute swan (Zo["o]l.), a European wild white swan (Cygnus gibbus), which produces no loud notes.


Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

do you get it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you should spend my time uploading the pics of your car then trying to give me spelling/gramer leasons I'm only a product of my surroundings and I only need to please one person and it's not you

<kiss my a** alert off>

so where's the pics I want to see

[sperry]

I understand that "mute" is a word in the english language, but no one says "mute point"... the phrase is "moot point". And yes, I'm an asshole for making a big deal out of it...

I have tons of *video* from the trip to ESX, but no pictures. I gotta get a firewire cable and free up a bunch of hard drive space in order to pull the video off the camera... hopefully I'll have the footage uploaded tonight.

[AtomicLabMonkey]

http://www.quinion.com/words/qa/qa-moo1.htm

[Q] From Nancy Maclaine: “Did the phrase a moot point originally mean ‘a debatable point’? Nowadays it seems to mean ‘an irrelevant point’ or even ‘a point so irrelevant it’s not worth debating’. Some actually have taken to referring to it as a mute point. What’s the history here?”

[A] Moot point is one of those phrases that once had a firm and well-understood meaning, but no longer does. It was just as you say: a matter that was uncertain or undecided, so open to debate.
It comes from the same source as meet and originally had the same meaning. In England in medieval times it referred specifically to an assembly of people, in particular one that had some sort of judicial function, and was often spelled mot or mote. So you find references to the witenagemot (the assembly of the witan, the national council of Anglo-Saxon times), hundred-mote (where a hundred was an Anglo-Saxon administrative area, part of a county or shire), and many others. So something that was mooted was put up for discussion and decision at a meeting—by definition something not yet decided.
The confusion over the meaning of moot point is modern. It is a misunderstanding of another sense of moot for a discussion forum in which hypothetical cases are argued by law students for practice. Since there is no practical outcome of these sessions, and the cases are invented anyway, people seem to have assumed that a moot point means one of no importance. So we’ve seen a curious shift in which the sense of “open to debate” has become “not worth debating”.
The mute spelling is a development that has come about because moot is now a fossil word, usually encountered only in this phrase; there is an understandable tendency to convert the unknown into the known, and mute seems to fit the new meaning rather better. But it’s wrong.

[MikeSTI]

man if I only had you guys as my English teachers when I was growing up; I could only imagine the possibilties. :shock:

I'm just glad Debbie still wants to hang with us........................


................but then again there could be a RX-8 club in the works to take her from us.........................


................nah!!

[tysonK]

omg.

this thread is mootiful.

[sperry]

One again I can't believe how quickly we destroy a thread and change the topic.

This one's all me too.... my bad.

[Dean]

The noise level on this thread is so high, I had to moot my PC to keep reading it.

Got Moot?

Moot, there it is.

Cow point Latin...

Ymoot ewnmoot idermoot simoot weetsmoot...

[JC]

The amusing thing is that someone said mute point today and I was like dammit it's moot and the girl next to me (somewhat cute) looked at me funny.

[Dean]

Originally Posted by JC

The amusing thing is that someone said mute point today and I was like dammit it's moot and the girl next to me (somewhat cute) looked at me funny.

Was it somewhat amusing that someone said "mute point", that the girl looked at you funny, or that she was somewhat cute? Maybe Scott can analyze the grammer in this sentance for us.

[MattR]

I love this thing