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Re:Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly by CydeWeys on Monday December 31, 2018 @02:57PM (#18796586)
Yes, exactly, that's how the word is commonly used, especially in advertising/the marketplace.

Just because you'd prefer others be more stringent with it doesn't mean that everyone else is lying.

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Re:Making and Selling a Stair-Climbing Dolly by raquo on Monday December 31, 2018 @03:06PM (#18796648)
Alternatively, sleazy marketing is in no position to define the meaning of words, even if that's most of marketing.

A cable package or car loan does not magically become a GREAT DEAL just because a billboard said so. We're just used to constant lies and aggrandizement in advertising, so all that bullshit looks normal, entirely expected now. It's still bullshit though.

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