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Optimized_Orangutan t1_j8jds7f wrote

Reply to comment by Outrageous-Outside61 in Responses to gentrification by Northwoods01

Checking in from Caledonia and Essex counties where my once isolated hunting camp is now located smack dab in the middle of two major developments. (The 10 acre sub division for mcmansion type of development, not the kind we need)

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DaddyBobMN t1_j8jf3cb wrote

But gentrification is a change to an existing urban area.

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Optimized_Orangutan t1_j8jfak9 wrote

Sure. So rural areas just don't matter? It's the same process but you got us with semantics. Be proud.

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DaddyBobMN t1_j8jgmt3 wrote

There is a difference between using words correctly and semantics.

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Outrageous-Outside61 t1_j8jh7p7 wrote

Idk man google rural gentrification and you’ll see a million articles about it. Not saying you aren’t correct by definition, but it seems like a common mistake. Honestly never have been told that gentrification only applies to urban communities.

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Optimized_Orangutan t1_j8jjf4c wrote

Picking a single word from a single definition despite colloquial usage is the definition of semantics.

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DaddyBobMN t1_j8jlccz wrote

I would say that arguing a seldom used, neologistic definition of a word carries equal weight to the long established original definition fits the definition of semantics far better.

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Optimized_Orangutan t1_j8jlkiv wrote

You're still just arguing semantics rather than addressing the actual argument...

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Dadfart802 t1_j8jpulz wrote

Wealthy people would be the best thing to happen to the Kingdom IMO. Maybe you’d get some services.

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