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It's all fun and games by Lewis Carroll, but given the amount of doublespeak in American cities these days (especially by the Left but also by the Right), I thi
by prewett 2y ago
It's all fun and games by Lewis Carroll, but given the amount of doublespeak in American cities these days (especially by the Left but also by the Right), I think we need to insist that words have a meaning and you can't twist them to mean the opposite.
- kaycebasques 2y agoI am literally sourcing my definition from the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article on symbiosis I totally get it. People usually mean "mutually beneficial" when they talk about symbiosis. But the deeper we go into this Hacker News thread, the more amusing it gets to me that multiple commenters are really struggling to acknowledge the broader meaning of the term. And what's even funnier is that the broader meaning probably originates from biologists and ecologists; people who are very invested in precise language in this space.
- binary132 2y agoYou cannot use Wikipedia as a source, everyone knows this.
- kaycebasques 2y agoWe will put aside that debate :) but I appreciate your deep-dive over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40876979 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40876979