[FRIAM] words for Nick

[Russell Standish]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 11:24:20AM -0400, Eric Charles wrote:
> "Awesome" is one of my favorites. Now used to indicate general goodness.  Not
> generally used in situations where one say "i was in awe". 
> 
> "Liberal" and "conservative" are two of my least favorite.  Liberal was about
> promoting freedom.  Conservative was about retaining past ways. Note that those
> are clearly orthogonal issues in their original usage,  and now we act like
> they are opposites,  which is terrible.  

And just as bizarrely, in Australia they are synonyms. The Liberal
party is the conservative party.


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