"breached" vs "topped" or "rolled over" ??

[kentuck]

According to my Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition, "breached" when referencing a boat or a floodwall is defined as "a breaking of waves over or upon a ship, seawall, etc."

[emulatorloo]

1. don't tell me the bushbots are playing wordgames again

I thought they were against "parsing".

[11 Bravo]

2. Byron York just tried this bullshit on Hardball.

Parsing of words? Didn't they used to refer to that as "Clintonian"?

[Caoimhe]

3. yes I have heard it also here's the earlier thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=558671&mesg_id=558671

[malaise]

5. Yep starting with the Mississippi Gov

Barber

[npincus]

4. it all depends what the meaning of the word "is" is...

parse away, jerk-offs!

[complain jane]

6. How about WATER WENT IN PEOPLE'S LUNGS.

Topped, breached, give me a fucking break for God's sake.

These neocons are the scum of the earth.

[Igel]

7. Eh.

It's plausible. Denying the plausible without evidence is silly. It's done frequently, but that doesn't mean it's not silly.

But if you *really* want to be a stickler for language: "We didn't anticipate the breaching of the levees" is trivially true, under at least two readings of 'anticipate'.

1. To feel or realize beforehand; foresee: hadn't anticipated the crowds at the zoo.
2. To look forward to, especially with pleasure; expect: anticipated a pleasant hike in the country.
3. To deal with beforehand; act so as to mitigate, nullify, or prevent: anticipated the storm by boarding up the windows. See Synonyms at expect.
4. To cause to happen in advance; accelerate.
5. To use in advance, as income not yet available.
6. To pay (a debt) before it is due.

Everyone acts like only definition (1) is possible. Many, struck by fits of ill-will, want to believe that they did anticipate the breach, in the second definition.

But it's certainly true that few "act(ed) so as to mitigate, nullify, or prevent" the breaching of the levees.

Parse on.

[tridim]

8. Also, breached security..

Doesn't matter if you go around, under, over or through the line of security, it's still a breach.