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		dionidium 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighbo... What this back-and-forth, and this thread more generally, demonstrates is that these words are not very useful. They almost never clarify. What they do is produce silly arguments like this one.

lolinder 9 months ago [–]

That's why people have been using paragraphs to clarify what they mean. Paragraphs that you seem to have ignored in favor of critiquing the utility that specific words have when taken out of the context the author intentionally put them in.

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