So here we are, on common ground. What is common? What is ground? It is obviously debatable, but common means other big words like prevalence, conformity, and equality. It means simple words like popular, normal, and typical.
None of these words describe common to a tee...or T...or tea. In fact, no one word means exactly the same as another one word, otherwise we wouldn't need two words. Sometimes though, words can have a way of being extremely similiar. It's only the intricate details of the words that set them apart. In this way those words are common. Their definitions are common to each other. Sometimes one word is commonly used to depict a variety of different things. Sometimes a variety of words are used to depict a common definition. Now looking at this text will lead you to believe that the word, "common" is commonly used by this post, or even this poster. But that would be a common mistake. Push the limits of the common ways of speaking. The internet has common abbreviations that everybody understands, such as LOL, A/S/L, NM, and N/M. Also internet users may commonly spell words differently to save typing effort, such as wat, k, and puter. Before the internet became so big, these abbreviations were nowhere near common knowledge. OK...I'm sure the readers of this message are commonly annoyed...so I shall stop.
Friday, October 1, 2004
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