also back then there was western industry that could be offshored to china. whose industry's gonna move to argentina now? nobody else with a significant manufacturing sector is stupid enough to do it, after watching the west shoot itself in the foot. or so one would hope...
ages ago, i spent something like half a year thinking there was a word "appericate". it was an odd one, since i only ever saw it in print, and from context it was clear that it meant the same thing as "appreciate", which, oddly enough, i only ever heard in speech.
and then one day i stopped at an "appericate" in a book and re-read it 9 times, very slowly.
i went to the movie theater and watched it all the way through. it was harrowing. i havent forgiven the hobbit movie, PJ and the movie industry in general for that one.
i'm not sure i like people just giving bullets away... people involved in being intersected by a bullet should pay for the service! that'd boost the gdp too
why do you think that matters? what actually matters is how people use language. admittedly, this also involves studying people like you who have weird ideas about language.
if you just listen to people, you'll find that they use this phrase to talk about atm machines. that's all that is required. it doesnt matter if you think the name for a thing was derived through a process you personally dont like. it's still a name for a thing that is in common use and understood by people.
oh, also, do you think the "river avon" is also wrong? why or why not?
it sanctions other CPUs and strong arms them into giving up their cycles