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Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by ComodoHacker on Sunday June 26, 2016 @05:16PM (#11982765)
>that makes me think that they think I'm an idiot and that they think they can actually manipulate me with such silliness.

So "Brexit" was made up just to manipulate British people? That's how language evolves, isn't it? New words get coined, some of them stick and stay, some go away. "Dumbocrat" won't stay for long because it carries nothing but insult.

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Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by ppopoff on Sunday June 26, 2016 @10:19PM (#11983838)
Brexit is not a pejorative corruption of a pre-existing name or term. Incidentally, it's a basically neutral coinage used by both Leave and Remain camps.
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Re:Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook by hypnotortoise on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @07:16AM (#12000830)
I'd argue Brexit was a neutral coinage, same with Bremain. Those terms dominate the press because of its simplicity but have a weighting effect on its readers and are naturally directing discussion into one side of the debate.
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