What I am sure about is that the meaning of words can change with their usage and that different people with different aims in mind have a different interpretation of the meaning of words to begin with and in the process of communication a meaning is negotiated and settle upon or not. I am not expressing that the meaning of anything can be so rigidly pinned down, but is fluid and changes with usage. Of course, if I were to find myself in the dock at the Old Bailey, I hope my barrister could split the finest of hairs.

Do I take it from your words that you believe people should conform and not express their view in a public forum, except with the permission of people like yourself? I would have thought that knowledge and language are one of the same things. Are you expecting me to believe that the real meaning of what I say lies behind my word and resides in a part of my brain, because surely as soon as I express what I know with language then that knowledge becomes a publicly shared concept: unless the possessed knowledge is shared, how can its existence be proved?

Look at your example:

I do so love people who try to impress others.

Do you really love me, even though you havent met me? Or is there a cynicism behind your words, a more negative meaning? Is the real meaning of what you write the opposite of the words you choose to use? Why didnt you write something like: I dont like people who try to impress.