• ObliviousEnlightenment@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    A lot of us speak colloqial, speaking colloquial is more common. You cannot enter a discourse held by laymen, assume and use academic definitions, and expect to be understood or agreed with

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      6 months ago

      Much of the English speaking world uses liberal to mean its formal definition, for example, the Liberal Democratic Party in the UK.

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      6 months ago

      Maybe not if the definition is left assumed to be shared, but you’d think the layman may come to a richer understanding of meaning once presented with a precise distinction .