That response may be technically true (you don’t acknowledge the relevance of the argument,) but I don’t think it’s usually appropriate, since the idea that something falling into a negative category could be irrelevant probably falls across a gap of inferential distance for your interlocutor. If they already got it, they probably wouldn’t have made the argument in the first place.
That’s fair, but I’d certainly still prefer it to “x is the GOOD kind of y,” which I feel has an infantile feel to it. Not that I think Yvain was actually saying he would use that construction.
That response may be technically true (you don’t acknowledge the relevance of the argument,) but I don’t think it’s usually appropriate, since the idea that something falling into a negative category could be irrelevant probably falls across a gap of inferential distance for your interlocutor. If they already got it, they probably wouldn’t have made the argument in the first place.
That’s fair, but I’d certainly still prefer it to “x is the GOOD kind of y,” which I feel has an infantile feel to it. Not that I think Yvain was actually saying he would use that construction.