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Jack and the Five Legged Horse
My uncle once said, "Boy, do you see that horse?"
Yessir.
"How many legs does that horse have?"
Four.
"Now what if I say that a horse's tail is a leg, too?"
Uh...
"If I call a horse's tail a leg, how many legs does that horse have?"
Five?
"Boy, will you never learn? It doesn't matter what you call something. That horse still has four legs."
Sometimes when confronted with a difficult challenge we reply, That's not true! We say, That's not a (vanity page)/(rant)/(personal attack)/(tail); that's a (noteworthy article)/(discussion)/(polite comment)/(leg). But this changes...
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Something that has always bothered us about the new user experience was the amount of guidance we've got out there telling folks to flag rude or abusive comments, but not allowing new users to do it, because .. it's complicated.
Let's un-complicate it and let new users flag any comment on any po...
The meaning of vulgar is that of "simple, common" not the original offensive one as suggested by World Wide Words:
Over time, vulgar went down in the world. It moved from “in ordinary use”, and “relating to the ordinary people”, to “commonplace”; by the seventeenth century it had begun to ...
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