Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really?
by khedoros1 on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @05:45PM
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While they're technically different, they're "close enough for government work", and I don't know anyone who would make the distinction in casual conversation. IMO, there's no "of course" about it; a comparable situation would be interpreting "literally", "begs the question", "ironic", and such using their dictionary definitions, when it seems clear that the writing has a more colloquial tone.
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Re:Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really?
by thaumasiotes on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @10:17PM
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In response to the comment "when you're paid biweekly, not all months are the same", then yes, it is blindingly obvious that the current context draws a distinction between being paid biweekly, such that not all months are the same, and being paid semimonthly, such that all months are in fact the same.