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| Freethinker |
Just saw that in a law enforcement BOLO.  ► 6.0/94.0 To operate serious weapons in a serious manner. | ||
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| Eye on the Silver Lining |
What does this mean? __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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| Freethinker |
If you’re asking why my complaint, it’s what’s demonstrated by someone’s misusing common words. Again. If it’s what “paternal mother” means, it means nothing because the two words contradict each other as in the example of, “My boy sister is in second grade.” Boys are male, sisters are female. From Microsoft Copilot: “The term ‘paternal’ refers to anything related to the father, while ‘maternal’ refers to anything related to the mother. Therefore, ‘paternal mother’ would mix these two opposing concepts, making it contradictory.” And yes, this time the misuse could have simply been a brain fart in the rush of the moment, but that sort of ignorant misuse seems to becoming more common every day. And of course sooner or later someone will chime in with, “If you know what it was intended to mean, what does is matter?” Yeah, you’re right. ► 6.0/94.0 To operate serious weapons in a serious manner. | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
The father’s mother instead of the mother’s mother? | |||
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| Freethinker |
My father’s mother would be my paternal grandmother; my mother’s mother would be my maternal grandmother. Both are proper terms. “Paternal mother,” however, is equivalent to saying, “My mother is my father.” ► 6.0/94.0 To operate serious weapons in a serious manner. | |||
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Oriental Redneck |
^^^^ BINGO! Q | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Yep. A piece is missing. Someone could be a paternal grandmother. Someone could arguably even be a paternal stepmother, which is clunky but technically correct if dealing with a child of divorced parents and differentiating between the father's new wife and the mother's new wife (in a same sex marriage). But a paternal [just plain] mother isn't a thing. | |||
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| Eye on the Silver Lining |
I’ve got to laugh, because so many words have been reassigned meanings for me that I had to check - I thought maybe this meant two dudes were raising a kid and this was the one that was acting as a mom? I guess that shows you how ignorant I am! __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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| Savor the limelight |
Well you have to look at their feet: | |||
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| Freethinker |
Now I understand your question, and the way things are these days I should have anticipated that someone might take my brief post that way. But I was just whining about what I took to be pure ignorance, and of course it could have just been some sort of autocorrect mistake. E.g., “paternal” when perhaps “parental” was intended.  ► 6.0/94.0 To operate serious weapons in a serious manner. | |||
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| Eye on the Silver Lining |
No sweat. Like I said, so many words have been reassigned new meanings that I don’t even know what to think, or say, to be honest. My kid talks about “drip”, for example, and all I can think of is nasal drip. What he describes to me, I always thought of as “swag”. Thanks for the clarification. __________________________ "Trust, but verify." | |||
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| Member |
I've found that cops and English are not always close friends. For years I was responsible for proofing the documents submitted by Correctional Officers. It gave me a twitch. | |||
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A Grateful American |
"the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
I think this may be an outgrowth of transgenderism (the "ism" part). What with all the nonsense about calling mothers birthing persons, this notion that a man-to-"woman" transgender gains the ability to bear children, images like those of Pete Buttigeig and his "partner" dressed up in hospital gowns while holding a baby (as if they had anything to do with it), etc., I can see where people might pick this crap up. It could be from genuine confusion, or an attempt to be politically correct.This message has been edited. Last edited by: egregore, | |||
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| Freethinker |
There is much that can be blamed on various insane policies and attitudes these days, but improper word usage was common long before “woke” (with its eerie similarity to Deutschland erwache!) became the Left’s word of the day. It’s possible the usage was intentional, but it seems unlikely. ► 6.0/94.0 To operate serious weapons in a serious manner. | |||
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Age Quod Agis |
In the same sex marriage, she's the one with the dick. "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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