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Daniel Nest's avatar

I wouldn't know anything about that. I always beshort.

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Andrew Smith's avatar

You know, there's something interesting with "shorting" going on too. "Short selling" or "shorting the market", or "coming up short", or "get shorty." Be + long means to go along with; be + short would be to be an outsider, right?

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Daniel Nest's avatar

What a shortsighted way to shortchange someone!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

I'm definitely longing for a better comeback..

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Bryan Beal's avatar

Interesting read. I've long been interested in linguistics. This was fascinating!

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Andrew Smith's avatar

Awesome, glad to meet a fellow nerd! If you're curious, I created a "linguistics" tag a while back:

https://goatfury.substack.com/t/linguistics

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