Game: Answer with a question game... (9)

[jojogirly]

why tortoise?

 

[No Swansong]

What is the oldest living Tortoise?

 

[jojogirly]

donno do u?

 

[No Swansong]

What were we talking about?

 

[Theofilus]

Wasn't the world's oldest tortoise Harriet until she died earlier this year?

 

[No Swansong]

Don't you know I think you are right?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Wasn't that on the news?

 

[No Swansong]

Aren't most things?

 

[HesMyAll]

Don't they have to be interesting to be on the news?

 

[No Swansong]

Wouldn't you know that is the ideal?

 

[HesMyAll]

Isn't the ideal sometimes very distant from reality?

 

[Theofilus]

Isn't reality far from being ideal?

 

[No Swansong]

Don't you know you both are right?

 

[Theofilus]

Weren't we saying the exact same thing with different words?

 

[jojogirly]

uuumm..which words?

 

[TheAJKMan]

How does one define ideal?

theajkman

 

[Theofilus]

Like this?

i‧de‧al  /aɪˈdi

əl, aɪˈdil/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ahy-dee-uh

l, ahy-deel]
–noun
1.a conception of something in its perfection.
2.a standard of perfection or excellence.
3.a person or thing conceived as embodying such a conception or conforming to such a standard, and taken as a model for imitation: Thomas Jefferson was his ideal.
4.an ultimate object or aim of endeavor, esp. one of high or noble character: He refuses to compromise any of his ideals.
5.something that exists only in the imagination: To achieve the ideal is almost hopeless.
6.Mathematics. a subring of a ring, any element of which when multiplied by any element of the ring results in an element of the subring. –adjective
7.conceived as constituting a standard of perfection or excellence: ideal beauty.
8.regarded as perfect of its kind: an ideal spot for a home.
9.existing only in the imagination; not real or actual: Nature is real; beauty is ideal.
10.advantageous; excellent; best: It would be ideal if she could accompany us as she knows the way.
11.based upon an ideal or ideals: the ideal theory of numbers.
12.Philosophy.
a.pertaining to a possible state of affairs considered as highly desirable.
b.pertaining to or of the nature of idealism.

 

[No Swansong]

Doesn't that depend upon what the word 'define' means?

 

[Theofilus]

Doesn't it mean to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.) ?

 

[Heart of a Seeker]

Am I supposed to know that?