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Re:Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? by tlb on Sunday December 18, 2016 @04:56AM (#13205123)
Can you define "graft", as you use it here? The common definition is "the obtaining of money or advantage through the dishonest use of power and influence" [0], but that doesn't seem like what you mean.

[0] http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/graft

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Re:Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? by _andromeda_ on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:06AM (#13205156)
Sorry, I'm a speaker of the Queen's English:

British Slang. work; labor.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/graft

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Re:Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? by jholman on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:09AM (#13205349)
That's not the Queen's English, HRH speaks RP.
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Re:Ask YC: Any Updates on the Basic Income Project? by _andromeda_ on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:16AM (#13205365)
It was tongue in cheek my friend. Thanks for nugget of knowledge though; I didn't know about received pronunciation.

Edit:

Tangentially, I happen to speak 3 languages and English is not my native language.

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