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Arguments devolve on threads to wordsmithing contests

Why is it that so many well-intentioned threads devolve into wordsmithing contests? Is it necessary to argue about the meaning of posts when the language thereof is reasonably clear on its face?
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geoffkait
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rodman999993,530 posts02-26-2019 7:46pmI deleted my previous, very unkind, post and regret having made it.  Everyone has their own field, after all.

>>>>Correction. Everyone has his own field, after all. 
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Do the discussions devolve or do they evolve?

I suspect what happens to them is alternating versions of osmosis and capillary action, each in inverse intensity and magnitude to the other. But I could be wrong.
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“>>>>Correction. Everyone has his own field, after all.”

Geoff single-handedly wiped the female and “other” genders out of the lexicon of candidates for possessive pronouns.
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