If you have breakfast for dinner...is it still breakfast?
Ill make an argument out of it
P1: People get out of bed at 2pm, have a bowl of cereal and call it breakfast, even though it is technically not 'morning'
P2: Pancakes are a socially accepted breakfast food that can be eaten at any time of the day
P3: I like waffles
C: 'Breakfast' in America has become a social term used to describe the type of food eaten, regardless of the time of day it is enjoyed.
I am not really sure if you have an argument here.It seems to me like more of a report. You have observed when people eat "breakfast" and simply relayed the information to others. It may be more of an argument if you gave more information in the first place so the reader knows where the argument is coming from.
ReplyDeleteWe could lexically define 'breakfast' in accordance with its etymology (breaking a fast: eating after a longish period of not eating, as after a night's sleep), and thereby reserve it for morning meals and Muslim evening meals during Ramadan...
ReplyDeleteI guess I was trying to take any sort of timeframe completely out of the picture here. It was an argument, it just could have been stronger.
ReplyDeletedictionary.com defines breakfast two ways:
1. The first meal of the day; morning meal.
(which would go along with matt's thoughts - bravo on that)
2. The food eaten AT the first meal of the day.
I do see in where you see an argument but i do agree that it may be a weak one.
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