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What petty hill will you die on?

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For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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While I don’t support language prescriptivism just for the sake of it, there should be a common understanding what words mean.
Otherwise language loses its function to accurately and effectively transport information, no?

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