a few some of us aspire towards a much higher goal, namely, towards a more accurate understanding of the fundamental nature of words and their meanings.

Whatever "few" you have in mind, Amemeba, it would be better for everyone, not to mention your cause, if there were even fewer of them.

I fear the tinkers have mistook their tinking for thinking. As you yourself observed so insightfully, so recently [albeit more harshly than I myself would have put it]: "How does an ignorant person recognize a wise one?"

How can a cow which can only "moo" recognize the music in a voice, the poetry in a pasture?