"Digger" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 19:38:53 +0100, "Richard" > wrote:
>
> >Am I upsetting you?
>
> No, but you're obviously very embarrassed about my
> showing what a faux vegetarian you are, else you
> wouldn't keep snipping my whole post away.

Only because you did it and eliminated the point I made. You did it again
with this point.

> Why don't you explain why you try to fool people into
> thinking you're a vegetarian whose diet consists primarily
> or wholly of vegetables when announcing yourself as a
> vegetarian? You've admitted you inwardly refer to a
> completely different definition of the term 'vegetarian'
> when making this announcement which has nothing to do
> with vegetables at all, and here's your acknowledgement
> of that.
>
> "The term "vegetarian" comes from "vegetus", the
> latin for "enlivened", and has no connection, apart
> from a linguistic one, with vegetables. This is a
> common misconception."
> Richard 14/10/2004
>
> As you say, "This is a common misconception", and
> you do your very best to take advantage of it whenever
> announcing yourself as a vegetarian. Why don't you
> just say you're lively, if that's what you really mean?

I think that most people think the word vegetarian means one who doesn't eat
meat.

What do you think it means?