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Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by dang on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @02:43PM (#18079015)
I get that you were talking about quantity, but the figure of speech which describes millions of people as "nobody" has also a belittling aspect to it. This is the aspect I'm talking about.
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Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by darawk on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:26PM (#18079392)
Well, I simply disagree that the fact that a word has another, unintended meaning has any bearing on its use. I don't really see why it should, or why that would be a productive or useful social rule to impose.
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Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by dang on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @03:52PM (#18079621)
The word in question has a clear meaning, which clearly wasn't the sense in which you used it.
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Re:Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own ... by darawk on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @06:29PM (#18080802)
...and again, why is it that a sense that I didn't use matters?
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