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perl4ever on June 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The collapse of the IRON stable coin

If that's your definition, fine, but lots of people use it in a looser sense and have forever.

Nobody wins in an argument over which definition of a word or phrase is correct.

Whatever happened to the debates over whether something was ironic?

bena on June 18, 2021 [–]

That argument can be used in a lot of contexts where people wouldn't. Regardless/irregardless, literally, gif, decimate, etc.

And I'm not saying don't say it's like one, I'm just saying it's technically not one.

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