• CriticalResist8OPMA
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    1 year ago

    Clearly NPR was not talking about infiltrating a wall or lock, but about infiltrating Israel.

    that’s a real weird revisionist prescriptivism you’ve got there.

    Not sure what you mean by that.

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      the specificity you’re demanding for “infiltrate” to apply is prescriptivist, and it’s revision because it does not reflect common usage in american or commonwealth.

      anyway, you’re still infiltrating a security device something even if the people who put up the walls or locks fortified border did so illegitimately.

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        The comrade was being slightly pedantic in objecting to the use of the word infiltrate to make a point, but you are just being an annoying debate nerd for no reason. What do you think you are achieving with this?