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Sure it is. You regularly average one drink per month.
No? Some months I might have one drink, some months I might have three, some months I might have none at all. That's what 'on average' means.
In other word, it is not habitual. It is occasional.
If you go to the movies five or six times a year, are you a habitual movie-goer?
You can try to change the word, but I am not falling for it. If you go to the movies 5 or 6 times a year, you have a habit of going to the movies. If you drink 5 or 6 glasses of poison a year, that would be a bad habit, and also a vice.
That is not what habit means.
Going to the movies 5 or 6 times a year is neither settled nor regular.
Now look up tendency. Any number range per year is a regular tendency. Per year is regular, and any nonzero number is tendency. The English language is shit. I before e except after c and several hundred other exceptions.
Nonsense. It's entirely relative.
Per year is regular for a medical checkup.
Per year is not regular for eating an egg salad sandwich. Especially when it is an average of once per year and not definitely once per year.
Is getting a medical checkup a habit? If so, is it a vice? Because, again, I don't deny I have habits. I'm denying I have vices.
Nothing in the definition says anything about relative. You are applying your interpretation to the definition. But everyone can have a different interpretation. So you can't do that and still be "technically" correct.
Are you seriously claiming that having, on average, one egg salad sandwich a year is both a habit and a vice?
Pretty sure I never said anything specific about egg salad. But yeah, English sucks. Technically it is a habit.
No, I said something specific about egg salad, on average, once per year and you said it is a habit.
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So basically everything anyone could possibly do from swallowing a thumbtack to dying of listeria is a habit.
I keep trying to tell you that english is a shifty language. I believe you can exclude one time events if you dig into the definitions of the words used in the definition of habit. But that is probably the technical limit of things truely excluded.
I see... So if you eat a plum when you're 6 years old and then never eat another plum again until you're 90, it's not a one-time event, and therefore is a habit and a vice.
Yes on the habit technically. Thats a once every 45 year habit. But a vice? Well I don't think eating a plum is bad for you unless you are allergic or something. So not a vice I think.
I don't think you will find a single other person on this planet that would agree with you that doing something two times over the course of your entire life is a habit. Not one.
Now that's just silly. Even the most absurd thing one could think of could find one person on the planet that would agree with it.
Now remember, you took this down the "technically" path. I personally would use habit closer in line with how you would. But Vice is similar. The definition says it is a habit, but it is common for people to use it in reference to things that aren't a habit by your interpretation. So you can pick if you want to be technical, or interpretive. But you can't mix and match. Either way, the original point of everyone has a vice is true if you use the technical branch and if you use the interpretive branch. It is only false if you use the interpretive for habit, and the technical for vice.
Okay, find me that person. I'll wait.
Dr oz.... Donald Trump, any of the maga Republicans...
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You guys truly have some serious vices of online pointless arguments. How humane of you.
I congratulate you on being just like the rest of us.