Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage
by renewiltord on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:19PM
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I suspect there's a transformation through intent.
This does lead to poor policing (like the famous Google banning man for taking photo of his child's genitals to send to doctor story).
It appears that in present-day English people use the word 'abuse' to mean more than physical abuse. If you're a prescriptivist that may upset you, but isn't that the nature of being a prescriptivist? Does it perhaps beg the question "why be a prescriptivist?"? Aren't you, perhaps, literally standing against the world?
This does lead to poor policing (like the famous Google banning man for taking photo of his child's genitals to send to doctor story).
It appears that in present-day English people use the word 'abuse' to mean more than physical abuse. If you're a prescriptivist that may upset you, but isn't that the nature of being a prescriptivist? Does it perhaps beg the question "why be a prescriptivist?"? Aren't you, perhaps, literally standing against the world?