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It’s exactly because saying “failed to ___” doesn’t assign blame. That way whoever the article is about has a harder time suing… Especially if the article title is factual. Harder to prove intent
It’s exactly because saying “failed to ___” doesn’t assign blame. That way whoever the article is about has a harder time suing… Especially if the article title is factual. Harder to prove intent
Without really wanting to take a side here, you could explain why his metaphor doesn’t fit your real opinion instead of just saying it was a strawman, if you’d like.
Only 7 years for me, but long enough to hope they miss my traffic.
What’s your alternative? Other countries have similar one-word names for their citizens, “Italians,” “Japanese,” “Mexicans”, etc. United-Statesians? Then we might get the complaint that many other countries are made of smaller states too! Let’s go for “citizens of the United States of America,” that’s nice and short. I get that Central/South America exists, but let us have the word, there’s nothing else which sounds good.
Right guy would win in a fight, but center one wins the bread prize.