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Re:People work longer and different hours under lockdown by xapata on Sunday August 09, 2020 @01:22PM (#24101137)
> no one should be drawing any conclusions from the choice

But they ought to. ;-)

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Re:People work longer and different hours under lockdown by eindiran on Sunday August 09, 2020 @02:03PM (#24101523)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/should

1. (auxiliary) Be obliged to; have an obligation to; indicates that the subject of the sentence has some obligation to execute the sentence predicate or that the speaker has some strong advice but has no authority to enforce it.

2. (auxiliary) ought to; speaker's opinion, or advice that an action is correct, beneficial, or desirable.

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Re:People work longer and different hours under lockdown by xapata on Monday August 10, 2020 @06:14PM (#24114668)
Yes, yes, the language has synonyms. However, the beauty of synonyms is being able to create slight distinctions between them. A native speaker often learns connotations that don't appear in short definitions of some words. Punto e basta.
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