• deranger
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    1 month ago

    I really hate that “no one:” shit, it often doesn’t make any sense to me.

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      1 month ago

      It’s just a qualifier to insinuate that no one cares about a certain topic and then there’s that one person that brings it up out of no where.

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        1 month ago

        Shouldn’t it be “everybody: <blank>” then?

        Nobody: <blank> means that everyone has some feelings about it.

        If it’s Nobody and the second line applying to the same thing then the nobody part is false, because the second bit implies that at least one person feels that way.

        I just don’t get it, logically.

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          “Nobody has said anything” sounds a bit better than “everyone has said nothing”, which is about how it should be interpreted.