[peterpostle]

I've never understood the complaint that something is "just semantics", or "you're arguing semantics".

If someone can't argue based on the meaning of the words in a piece of text, what else can they argue about? The grammar? The spelling? Surely we _only_ want arguments based on semantics!

[MatthewWilkes]

The meaning of the sentence as a whole. "Just semantics" is used when you hinge your argument on the subtleties of meaning of one word.

[iopq]

Lexis and code generation, I guess