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Re:"Lighten up" by einhverfr on Thursday March 22, 2012 @04:44AM (#3738941)
But the point is that both of these are really ways of just shutting down conversation, right? "Lighten up" isn't a demand. It's just a way of cutting off the conversation through a retort.
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Re:"Lighten up" by natep on Thursday March 22, 2012 @05:16AM (#3739003)
Yes, that too. Man, it's almost as if 'lighten up' is a complex phrase with many different aspects of meaning :) I like the way you do think through all of these different meanings, though
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