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> Polyamory isn't popular at all. “Become so popular” is about a relative change in popularity, not about absolute numbers. Almost everyone eats breakfast, ye
by krisoft 3y ago
> Polyamory isn't popular at all.
“Become so popular” is about a relative change in popularity, not about absolute numbers.
Almost everyone eats breakfast, yet nobody would say it “become so popular”.
On the other hand if a very obscure thing becomes a bit less obscure that can be aptly described as becoming popular.
> It's just not as much of a taboo as it used to be.
Yes, that is what the article says too.
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoNot sure what you're even trying to get at here. Eating breakfast is popular. Polyamory is not only unpopular, but even if it doubled in popularity every year for the next 5 years, it'd still be vastly unpopular.
- krisoft 3y ago> Not sure what you're even trying to get at here. Evidently. “how did X become so popular” does not mean that X is popular. “X is popular” is a statement about the absolute popularity of X. “How did X become so popular” is a question about the change of popularity of X. It might or might not imply that X is popular in absolute terms. Let’s take the relatively niche sport of running-facefirst-into-a-rock. Last year there was only one athlete practicing it, this year there are 200. It is still a rounding error in popularity, yet you can ask “how did it become so popular?” When you ask that you don’t make a statement about the absolute popularity, but the change of it.