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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Yet the point is simply as valuable as pointing that it’s lighter during the day than at night, which is to say, having common knowledge pointed out as if to say that I had no idea of the simple facts of the progression of the English language taught in grade school. LoL
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    The first (fait accompli) and last one (schadenfreude) are used so often as to make them defacto English words in common usage, and the last being Latin (res ipsa loquitur) is known by many English speakers as well. The point of reference being overlooked at the very least in regards to my...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Which excludes them from being considered non-English words, as everyone knows them. However if I was to say それは別の話 then it would be exactly the kind of situation I was referring to.
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Totally agree with this and it almost always reeks of posturing when non-English words are brought into an otherwise normal conversation.
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    That's been the whole point of my rebuttal to your language based complaint, and you may have noticed that other posters who happened to see both sides and understood my point as well. By the way, you're never right just because others agree, hence this entire thread in the first place.
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Many do use the reference, even though it's a timeless concept, but your singling out of the phrase shows a bit of an overly cynical mindset on your part when you deliberately ignore the entire post in search of something to complain about. It's people who attack every single case of 'word...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Should have been clear from the start with a more attentive reading, but anyway, you're most welcome.
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Glad to see a well presented view by someone who comprehended what was actually written.
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    I can tell, and it might have been easier for you if you'd focused solely on what I quoted from your post. Except that he didn't. The part of his post which I quoted was the primary subject of my reply and his confusion was completely a basic English 101 issue. He quoted someone else and took a...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Cherry picking (nit picking?) while ignoring the obvious meaning of a quote is a practice, and generally not accidental. But then maybe you don’t understand the implications of “known as” used here, as opposed for example to “the period of colonialism". Here is the part you took exception to in...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    You can say that all you want, but your postings say otherwise. Your accusation of misinformation still stands even after you had to apologize for making it up. Very much like your offhand dismissal of a very even-handed and well written piece. Yes, you apparently do have a dog in this race.
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    The issue is that the left gets pretty agitated whenever what they're doing is exposed for what it is, and all too often with terminologies they self-identify by. Nice dog whistle you're using there. Everything means what it means, it's just that you don't like wokeness being exposed for what...
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    Petition to AOS Leadership on the Recent Decision to Change all Eponymous Bird Names

    Just not quite tired enough to do everything you proclaim to be unhappy with. So much for hyperbole, ad hominem attacks, and ineffective debate tools that reflect poorly on the attacker, which you apparently like quite well, as long as you’re the one using them. :ROFLMAO:
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