growin up in the 80's...

[Aubs]

thanks phantom..

[Dragonlady8]

Now get back to finishing your paper young Lady!!!!

[Aubs]

AHH - u caught me! i can't finish it - my brain just isn't working and i dont know how to put my thoughts onto paper

[x2xwakegurlx2x]

dont ya hate it when that happens, i do

[Aubs]

it happens all the time... WAY too often

[x2xwakegurlx2x]

ya, i dont really have to write essays that often, its weird, hopefully i wont get alot, but im only a freshman, so i have a while to get more

[Dragonlady8]

Don't think, just start scribbling thoughts and ideas about what you want to write. Before you know it , your paper will start to take off.

[Nor*Cal]

I always thought it was a mute point... but this tells me I'm wrong...

Moot point is one of those phrases that once had a firm and well-understood meaning, but no longer does. It was just as you say: a matter that was uncertain or undecided, so open to debate.
It comes from the same source as meet and originally had the same meaning. In England in medieval times it referred specifically to an assembly of people, in particular one that had some sort of judicial function, and was often spelled mot or mote. So you find references to the witenagemot (the assembly of the witan, the national council of Anglo-Saxon times), hundred-mote (where a hundred was an Anglo-Saxon administrative area, part of a county or shire), and many others. So something that was mooted was put up for discussion and decision at a meeting—by definition something not yet decided.
The confusion over the meaning of moot point is modern. It is a misunderstanding of another sense of moot for a discussion forum in which hypothetical cases are argued by law students for practice. Since there is no practical outcome of these sessions, and the cases are invented anyway, people seem to have assumed that a moot point means one of no importance. So we’ve seen a curious shift in which the sense of “open to debate” has become “not worth debating”.
The mute spelling is a development that has come about because moot is now a fossil word, usually encountered only in this phrase; there is an understandable tendency to convert the unknown into the known, and mute seems to fit the new meaning rather better. But it’s wrong.

[Aubs]

too confusing to think about now... lol ill re-read your post again tomorow norcal

paper is done - almost 3 pages and its just a bunch of BULLCRAP!!! but who cares...

[JHrod]

i found the bullcrap papers work best with my english teacher----she is so stupid she actually starts to believe what you wrote if you do a long enough paper so u get an A

[Nor*Cal]

huh 3 pages? That's like my intro and conclusion when double spaced.

[JHrod]

we're still talkin high school norcal--------no 20 page papers.................yet

[Jester]

Nor Cal, moot point doesn't mean open to debate. Actually, what Phantom said about it being irrelevant is close, but also not technically correct. Moot point is a fancy way of saying pointless.

This is kind of a stupid example, but it's one I think a lotta people will understand. In "The Usual Suspects" all the felons get rounded up & the lawyer is talking to them about earlier that day when they were at the police lineup. He said that Khyser Soze wanted to have a confrontation with them there but Gabriel Byrne's lawyer was so good that he got him out right away. So he said keeping all the rest of them there was a moot point & he had them all released. Make sense?

[Aubs]

norcal - its one of her short ones. she gives us 4 days to do a 3 page paper. usually its a week to do 8 pages...