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There's a difference between "entitled" and "self-entitled"; so many people abuse the word.

• DoctorOetker 8y ago
  if the quote is >Googlers just come off as entitled then "entitled" does seem to be the same concept you refer to as "self-entitled" ... I don't mind people proposing different uses of language, but the person you are responding to literally quoted "entitled" which in original context meant exactly what you refer to as "self-entitled" so I really see no value in your "correction" or was that a "self-correction" ?
• yyyymmddhhmmss 8y ago
  No. There is not a fundamental difference. The only difference is that one is more particular to the nature of the entitlement.
• dragonwriter 8y ago
  > There's a difference between "entitled" and "self-entitled" The former is a superset of the latter and the former term is often used for the latter, as here, where the specific subset being referenced is clear from context. > so many people abuse the word. Not particularly; natural language is just subject to more contextual nuance in meaning than most computer code.