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A comment on How to Legally Own Another Person (2015) [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:How to Legally Own Another Person (2015) [pdf] by twic on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:10AM (#15407162)
Any guess at what the grandparent thought 'courtesan' meant?
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Re:How to Legally Own Another Person (2015) [pdf] by denom on Thursday October 05, 2017 @10:38PM (#15414067)
I meant Courtier [1] I see NN Taleb as someone who _attends_ to power, but can never wield real power himself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtier

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Re:How to Legally Own Another Person (2015) [pdf] by barry-cotter on Thursday October 05, 2017 @03:27AM (#15407237)
Courtier, implying well spoken andamusing
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Re:How to Legally Own Another Person (2015) [pdf] by danieltillett on Thursday October 05, 2017 @06:46AM (#15408104)
Prostitute. No this is not a complement in the context.
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