Comments on: We’ve Found Summer! http://www.wirelesstrips.com/weve-found-summer Is it possible to live on the road for weeks at a time in an RV when your lives depend on high-speed Internet access? That's the question we intend to answer. This blog is a chronicle of the adventures of keeping our Internet business and family life running while on the road. Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:24:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kerstin Peterson http://www.wirelesstrips.com/weve-found-summer/comment-page-1#comment-121748 Kerstin Peterson Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:46:59 +0000 http://www.wirelesstrips.com/weve-found-summer#comment-121748 Hi, Angela: I enjoy my subscriptiom to Writers Weekley and the Wireless Trips posts, but must point out an error in usage that is a pet peeve of mine. "...mute point" should be "...moot point". Moot is defined as follows from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary: Moot Moot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting.] [OE. moten, motien, AS. m[=o]tan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. m[=o]t, MHG. muoz. Cf. Meet to come together.] 1. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion. A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country. --Sir W. Hamilton. 2. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court. First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy. --Sir T. Elyot. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. Thanks, Kerstin Hi, Angela:
I enjoy my subscriptiom to Writers Weekley and the Wireless Trips posts, but must point out an error in usage that is a pet peeve of mine. “…mute point” should be “…moot point”. Moot is defined as follows from Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary:

Moot

Moot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mooted; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooting.] [OE. moten, motien, AS. m[=o]tan to meet or assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. m[=o]t, gem[=o]t, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. m[=o]t, MHG. muoz. Cf. Meet to come together.]

1. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.

A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country. –Sir W. Hamilton.

2. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.

First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy. –Sir T. Elyot. Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

Thanks,
Kerstin

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