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Unread 06-16-2021, 08:53 PM   #9
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In a book of wordplay called Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21 st Century, Liesl Schillinger humorously defines a mute point as follows:
“When somebody in a group makes a good suggestion, but somehow nobody hears it.”

In a similar vein, Urban Dictionary defines it as “addressing the participants of a conference call while your phone is on mute.”

Fans of the TV show Friends may have heard a third variation: moo point (because, according to Joey, a cow’s opinion doesn’t matter).
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