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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by otherusername on Monday December 15, 2014 @09:59AM (#8752263)
"Early examples of war as metaphor in US political discourse include J. Edgar Hoover's "war on crime" in the 1930s".

We've been using it as a metaphor since 1930's. It hasn't impaired the "real" usage of the word "War" so far. I doubt it will in the future.

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Re:Hyphen Hate? When Amazon went to war against punctuation by pluma on Monday December 15, 2014 @11:43AM (#8752839)
To be fair, the US has always been at war with Eastasia.
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