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Doesn't it just mean the companies affected are flaunting the law?
by boxed 3y ago
Doesn't it just mean the companies affected are flaunting the law?
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- chongli 3y agoI think you mean flouting (ignoring or defying) the law. Flaunting means to display or show off, like going to the beach in a bikini after working so hard to get in shape.
- hyperdimension 3y agoWow, I've said flaunting (the law, rules, et c.) the whole time. Thanks!
- boxed 3y agoYou can probably continue doing so: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaunt https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaunt
- yard2010 3y agoWell they kinda do that. "Look at what we can do, normal laws don't apply to us"
- chongli 3y agoThat’s flaunting their sense of impunity though, not flaunting the law itself which they didn’t draft.
- boxed 3y agoHuh. Interesting. I have never heard anyone say "flouting", but I have heard "flaunting" hundreds or thousands of times. Seems the confusion has been common enough for long enough that it's correct now: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaunt https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flaunt Similar to any word really.. if enough people use it a certain way, then that is the correct way by definition.
- kristjansson 3y agoor the law is ill-specified enough that 'complying' is impossible.