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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by zimpenfish on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:24AM (#28639534)
> [complicated, complex] are synonyms.

I mean, sure, but you can't just swap them in and out like that - you can have something complicated which is not complex (say a knitting pattern with four colours) and something complex which is not complicated ("put this arrow into the centre of that target").

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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by yunohn on Friday September 24, 2021 @03:29AM (#28639571)
I asked for contextual examples, not random ones. Though I guess if we’re in a thread of people reducing various platforms to a BBForum/Wikipedia, it wouldn’t make any sense to them.
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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by zimpenfish on Friday September 24, 2021 @05:20AM (#28640206)
> I asked for contextual examples, not random ones.

I was merely pointing out that you can't toss off "complex and complicated are synonyms" as some kind of argument "gotcha".

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Re:Apple's Power Move to Kneecap Facebook Advertising Is Wor... by yunohn on Friday September 24, 2021 @06:39AM (#28640676)
There was no gotcha. If the commenter claims their point revolves around the difference in meaning between two synonyms, they should explain themselves better in the given context.
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