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No, I think they've been conditioned to be extraordinarily careful in their wording, lest they be occasionally wrong and get rained on for being technically wro
by mc32 4y ago
No, I think they've been conditioned to be extraordinarily careful in their wording, lest they be occasionally wrong and get rained on for being technically wrong on something minor. So instead of having a rubric of "be cautious if it could incite war" it's "be cautious everywhere because we do not trust your judgement on anything"
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoAnd so we have "object" being the most generic and useless way to refer to something.
- mc32 4y agoI mean phenomenon was pretty generic. Though I suppose they could get childish and start calling them "things" or "stuff" like small children do. Maybe the military is about to degenerate into Munro's limit of 1000 basic words to describe everything.