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Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

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And yet, here you are, complaining about people complaining.

That's not at all incongruous. If I'm saying "You are complaining about something stupid", I am not necessarily criticizing the concept of complaining itself, which would be hypocritical. I seriously hate this argument. "You are nit-picking", "and here you are nitpicking my nitpicking, interesting that we are on exactly equal ground now". It's a dumb turn-around that could be used to attempt to silence any criticism…

In the same vein, it's annoyingly difficult to argue against accusations of being argumentative.

Re: Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers

#292

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That’s basically how words are borrowed from one language and brought into another.

I don’t think it is. It’s not random. Words are borrowed because they’re useful and fill in some gap or serve some new purpose.

Or because they differentiate you from others. English is full of that; there's "cow" for the commoners (from Germanic) vs "beef" for the rich (from French). Or thee/thous for commoners vs you (from French 'vous') for the rich. I suppose the new purpose in those cases were to differentiate from the lower classes.
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