Word-hunting (JOKE)

A “word-hunting is not good, don’t use the term word-hunting!” B “Isn’t that word hunting?”

• boomerang joke

This isn’t very refreshing.

• There’s a confusion between “the act referred to by the term ‘word-hunting’” and “the term ‘word-hunting.‘”
• “The practice called word-hunting is not good” and “the use of the word ‘word-hunting’ is not good” are two different claims, and you have to conflate and equate them to make the boomerang work.

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