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What is a "de facto argument"? --[[User:Horace|Horace]] 22:19, 1 March 2007 (EST)
What is a "de facto argument"? --[[User:Horace|Horace]] 22:19, 1 March 2007 (EST)
:: Well "de jure" means officially, formally, in law, and "de facto" is a weaker form of this term, meaning acting in the place of lawful or formal authority, but having some legitimacy thereby. The example everyone knows is "de facto" wife (aka common law wife) in which the couple are not "officially" married (that would be "de jure") but in every other way fulfil the definition of a marriage. I am surprised that no CP user in 17 months has had either the wit or inclination to answer Horace's honest question. What a "de facto" argument would be is anybody's guess. But most likely it is an attempt by some author to lend a pastiche of authority to his feeble maunderings by including a Latinism, and then, unfortunately for him, getting it wrong. There is a saying that one who has “little Latin and less Greek” should avoid such terms. But alas, what of the writer whose native English is not much better? Macramé, anyone? [[User:MylesP|MylesP]] 23:08, 31 October 2008 (EDT)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_%28film%29 That word, I do not think it means what Conservative thinks it means.]. I'm not sure what he means either, and in any event, not all translations use unicorn in those locations, and furthermore in all those locations there isn't any obvious reason that it would have to be reffering to an actual creature. [[User:JoshuaZ|JoshuaZ]] 22:25, 1 March 2007 (EST)
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Bride_%28film%29 That word, I do not think it means what Conservative thinks it means.]. I'm not sure what he means either, and in any event, not all translations use unicorn in those locations, and furthermore in all those locations there isn't any obvious reason that it would have to be reffering to an actual creature. [[User:JoshuaZ|JoshuaZ]] 22:25, 1 March 2007 (EST)