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That part made me kind of angry -- "so-called" makes the writer sound like they know something we don't, like "subversion" is some cool trick that smart people
by rev_bird 12y ago
That part made me kind of angry -- "so-called" makes the writer sound like they know something we don't, like "subversion" is some cool trick that smart people know.
- dragonwriter 12y ago"so-called" here is a way of distinguishing the use of "subversion" as a name/description distinction (somewhat similar to a use/mention distinction, but not the right way of making that distinction, IMO, as correctly using "Subversion" as a proper noun would be better, though) as the common noun "subversion" has meaning, but the word "subversion" was not being used for that meaning, only as the name of a thing.