Tapirs have four toes on each of their front feet, and three on each of their back feet.

(Also, they can jump, sort of.)

:: Double sigh ::

From various sources:

Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory. Jumping can be distinguished from running, galloping and other gaits in which the entire body is temporarily airborne by the relatively long duration of the aerial phase and high angle of initial launch. (Wikipedia/Wiktionary)

to project one's self through the air. (Biology online dictionary)

to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; (Dictionary.com)

to spring into the air (Merriam-Webster dictionary)

Now, I have seen this

to spring free from the ground or other base by the muscular action of feet and legs (also in the Merriam-Webster dictionary)

But only as an extrapolation, and never as the single definition.

Merriam-Webster also defines a punk as:
something or someone worthless or unimportant, or an inexperienced youth.

You know, just as an FYI.

How do I know you didn't just edit this beforehand? Or that the person who originally wrote it isn't a dip****? Either way, it's too broad.

Too broad.

Too broad.

Too broad.

Ding ding ding. I win. Thank you for admitting defeat.

Ooooo....lookie lookie lookie...somebody just waved a ginger flag in front of the kudz bull...

So you are single handedly declaring all the dictionaries listed as unfit for your usage, cherry picking my post and misrepresenting me in a sad and futile effort to save face?

Landon, I think I'm beginning to understand why you got your mouth popped a few weeks ago.

Landon needs a new word to describe how a dolphin performs those tricks in Sea World. Pretty much everyone I know says the dolphin jumps out of the water thru the hoops.


Go ahead give me another word that works better that normal people would use.


Example " Hey buddy look at that dolphin _____ out of the water! "


While fly works, it clearly does not accurately describe what the dolphin is doing, as the dolphin never achieves true flight.

Yes, yes, and yes. If disagreeing with dictionaries is what I have to do to not accept a liberal definition of jumping, then that is what I will do. You can propel yourself through the air however you like, but if you didn't use legs to do it you're not jumping. I don't give a **** who says otherwise.

You can continue using jump, even though it's incorrect. Sort of like how everyone thinks of the tomato as a vegetable even though they know it's a fruit, as if vegetables are the tomato's adoptive family. Even though what dolphins do technically isn't jumping, you can think of jumping as it's foster family.

You can use jumping and it is correct. You dont get to make up definitions.

The easiest example being a person can jump using his hands. It doesnt have to involved with feet, thus giving rise to a more broad definition.

We've already determined that jumping is subjective. I will define it however I see fit, within reason.

That's funny. Landon came back and edited this post, threw that last line in there, after he had read Mandor's (and maybe shadowrun's) post. Throw in a final footstomp in an effort to reinforce a self-delusion of declarative authority.

No, you decided to pretend it was subjective. Don't be using that "we" to appeal to some misguided sense of corroboration. You want to hide behind a solipsistic veneer, be my guest.

So the dictionary should control how I view the world? I disagree with the dictionary definition, and see no reason to do otherwise aside from a bunch of people telling me to. I've seen no solid evidence, I've only seen the opinion that jumping = X, and I'm not buying that.

this seems obviously false to me, but i could be wrong...

Perhaps there is not an infinite amount of time?