Barry,

LOL.   I did laugh out loud.  Thank you.

I didn't know that the definition of gadfly included the idea of "a person
who persistently ... makes demands, requests, etc."

I suggest we need a neologism for a conflation:  "gadfly without a
difference".

  In my life I have sometimes attempted to be a gadfly with an idea worth
a hearing.   I don't have hard proof but I'm highly confident that my
"shot percentage" was not 100%.



> On 7/12/15 10:12 AM, James B. Byrne wrote:
>> Methinks this is what is happening here:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference
>
> Yes, and a bit of this, as well:
>
> http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/gadfly?s=t
>
>
> B.
>

>>
>> So 4GL is marketing-speak;  sort of like G3, G4 and G5 cell networks.
>> Each is whatever the person presently talking about it says it is.  Of
>> course, in a similar vein now in English we have a word proactive -
>> whatever that means; prophylactic perhaps?
>>
>> Methinks this is what is happening here:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference
>
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