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Bluelight Crew
This thread is for discussion of minutiae of meaning and one's idiosyncratic usage thereof (including those semantic "pet peeves" that are proliferating in the wider pet peeve thread). I'll kick this off with something sufficiently irrelevant to illustrate what I'm talking about:
1. For you, does "asshole" denote malice? When I use it, it pretty much always does; I consider it a more vulgar and intensive way to say "jerk" or "prick". I've noticed others will sometimes use asshole to denote ineptitude, idiocy, ill-preparedness, or ignorance. Eg, "Yeah, I thought they'd be open before noon. Boy did I feel like an asshole when I got there." I would never use "asshole" in this way.
2. For me, "spam" always denotes unrequested solicitation (or simply self-promotion). If someone simply makes a series of terse, meaningless (or off-topic) posts, I wouldn't consider them spam per se.
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1. For you, does "asshole" denote malice? When I use it, it pretty much always does; I consider it a more vulgar and intensive way to say "jerk" or "prick". I've noticed others will sometimes use asshole to denote ineptitude, idiocy, ill-preparedness, or ignorance. Eg, "Yeah, I thought they'd be open before noon. Boy did I feel like an asshole when I got there." I would never use "asshole" in this way.
2. For me, "spam" always denotes unrequested solicitation (or simply self-promotion). If someone simply makes a series of terse, meaningless (or off-topic) posts, I wouldn't consider them spam per se.
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