Ad nauseam

Ad nauseam is a Latin term for argument or other discussion that has continued to the point of nausea.[1][2] For example, "this has been discussed ad nauseam" indicates that the topic has been discussed extensively and those involved have grown sick of it. The fallacy is also called argumentum ad infinitum (to infinity), and argument from repetition.[3]

For other uses, see Ad nauseam (disambiguation).

Applicability

The term is defined by the American Heritage Dictionary as "to a disgusting or ridiculous degree; to the point of nausea."[3] Colloquially it is sometimes used as "until nobody cares to discuss it any more."

gollark: Applications have to handle them differently, and the kernel does too.
gollark: There's a significant difference between "send datagram" and "push to a stream" and, i don't know, "wait for an inbound TCP connection".
gollark: Still, though, I don't think having all this stuff as read/writeable "files" when the semantics are different is good.
gollark: I basically just want to receive packets from ff02::aeae port 44718 on all interfaces and send them too, and I can't tell what operations that maps to.
gollark: It does seem like the primitives are very irritating to make this multicasting thing work properly with.

See also

References
  1. Ehrlich, Eugene (1985). Amo, Amas, Amat and More. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers. p. 25.
  2. "ad nauseam" definition Dictionary.com
  3. "Ad nauseam". American Heritage Dictionary. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  • The dictionary definition of ad nauseam at Wiktionary


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