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> Except in american What? In America liberal is very much displaced from its "original meaning".
by the_only_law 4y ago
> Except in american
What? In America liberal is very much displaced from its "original meaning".
- itsumoiru 4y agoI read the parent "except" as "the above is true, but..." not as "in all Englishes except American English"
- tremon 4y ago> [alas], in american vernacular, and hence also increasingly global, the words [..] have begun to stray... Except is used more like an interjection there (agreed, except that...). They didn't mean to except the american vernacular from the rest of the sentence, just to clarify why they didn't write "conservative" in the first place.