Anonymous #1 4d

exactly which part are you struggling with? I’ll spell it out for you even more explicitly if that’s what you need

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Anonymous OP 4d

What point you're trying to make. People use the word 'chronically' in the same sense as 'chronic pain' to describe people who are online all the time. What's that got to do with chronically ill people?

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Anonymous #1 4d

I think you got your reply threads confused. this post is about covid and “touch grass”, the “chronically” thing was my previous post. either way, your example pretty clearly reinforces my point that “chronically” is a word that is near-exclusively used in reference to disabled people

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Anonymous #1 4d

“chronic” and “chronically” are words that, in english, we most often hear or use in the context of discussing disability—i.e. pain or illness as I already explained, a lot of disabled people spend a great deal of time online due to our physical limitations.

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Anonymous #1 4d

all of this being true, it’s a very interesting “coincidence” that when someone wants to insult another person for spending too much time online, the word “chronically” is brought into it. hope that helps connect the dots for you

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Anonymous OP 4d

And? I still don't understand what point you're trying to make. Chronic refers to smth high frequency, especially something undesirable like pain, so chronically online=lots of time online. That's language languaging

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Anonymous #1 4d

Language evolves. Something that was used exclusively in one domain yesterday can be expanded to anything tomorrow

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Anonymous #1 4d

I’m well aware of the word’s definition, thanks. what I don’t understand is why you’re going out of your way to pretend that language exists in a vacuum, where a word never develops associations with other words and concepts based on the context in which it’s most frequently used. part of “language languaging” is connotations & proximity

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Anonymous #1 4d

I genuinely don't mean to be obnoxious, I'm just confused what you're trying to imply

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Anonymous #1 4d

if you’re still having trouble comprehending my point and you genuinely aren’t just playing obtuse as an attempt at dismissing my point, I would suggest that you try taking some classes which could provide you with an overview of subjects like linguistics and close-reading beyond the “101” level

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