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I'd be shocked to find more than 1 in 1000 English speakers to interpret an couple arguing as anything other than > 1) an exchange of diverging or opposite vie

I'd be shocked to find more than 1 in 1000 English speakers to interpret an couple arguing as anything other than > 1) an exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one. As opposed to a definition common in other contexts, eg academic, legal, political, like > 2) a reason or set of reasons given with the aim of persuading others that an action or idea is right or wrong.

tunesmith 6y ago
Would 999 out of 1000 people describe "taking a solution-oriented approach to conflict" as a heated exchange of diverging or opposite views? It's probably just a sloppy article - the paper's abstract doesn't describe that behavior as "arguing". In fact, the string "arg" doesn't show up on the study's page at all: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335327845_What_are_the_Marital_Problems_of_Happy_Couples_A_Multimethod_Two-Sample_Investigation https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335327845_What_are_...