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• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The definition does not indicate it can be not derogatory—which makes sense because it's derogatory.

  You despite claiming sans evidence that it is possible to refer to a human being with a pejorative adjective and it be anything other than derogatory, won't even back up your claim with a single non-derogatory example of its use.

  I get why you won't—'cause you can't—but if you were right you'd think You could give an example rather than litigating the implied corollaries to "sometimes".

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  • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The definition does not indicate it can be not derogatory—which makes sense because it’s derogatory.

    It does that what sometimes means. They would use the word always or possiblly omit it and state illegal is derogatory. They instead use sometimes.

    If you can’t be honest about the definition of the word sometimes then why would you be honest about if the statement is derogatory.

    Tell you what, if you can show when sometimes indicates something always happens I’ll give an example.

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    • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      "Sometimes" is different than "Sometimes although not always"

      That I why I had to use different words to type the two different concepts.
      Your definition only listed the first, which does not inherently indicate the second.

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      • jimbolauski@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Sometimes” is different than “Sometimes although not always”

        That’s a common mistake to think that but sometimes and not always have the same meaning. Your mistake is so common that there are many articles highlighting this redundancy.

        brians.wsu.edu/2016/05/31/sometimes-always/

        sometimes always

        Expressions like “not always,” “don’t always,” and “aren’t always” overlap in meaning with “sometimes,” but don’t belong in the same phrase with this word—they’re redundant.

        “Sometimes I don’t always feel like jogging” doesn’t make any sense. Say either “sometimes I don’t feel like jogging” or “I don’t always feel like jogging.”

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