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1. It is Meth-, not Met-amphetamines. 2. Your handle may fit the same pattern of appropriation you are complaining about… indigenous is spelled differently and
by zeckalpha 5y ago
1. It is Meth-, not Met-amphetamines.
2. Your handle may fit the same pattern of appropriation you are complaining about… indigenous is spelled differently and unlike Meta/Alphabet, describes a set of people.
- petre 5y ago1. Depends on the language. In most languages it's different variations of metamfetamin. "In organic chemistry, meta indicates the positions of substituents in aromatic cyclic compounds." Although I'd rather associate the company formally known as facebook with metastasis.
- inDigiNeous 5y agoYeah you caught me there. If it was easier to change the username on hacker news I would have done that already. But what gets is me these companies can trademark and fight anybody who tries to use that commonly used term, I cannot fight anybody as an individual even though my username would have been Meta in all the social media platforms before Facebook decided to own this name.