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That's a fair point, I think as a non-native speaker I don't always notice these separate-yet-linked connotations, and pointing them out definitely helps in tha

• JumpCrisscross 5y ago
  > What would be a better way to get the same idea across? What you said. They are war refugees in a political context. As hackers, however, they may seek to hit the ground running. This isn’t an Americanism. It isn’t denying reality. It’s acknowledging the slice of reality relevant to this discussion, which exists in the optimistic change-the-world pathos of hacker culture.
• goldfeld 5y ago
  As the other user replied, only a few people who will read between languages/uses will pick up the nuance or irony, which however was not at all meant by you, that is, you didn't play with multiple meanings but just the "hackerism" at face value, no biggie. I'm possibly just lonely in being tired of hackerspeak or somesuch, and it's on me, with being jaded about english with its context in general as I go to other languages (english not my mother tongue either.)