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We don't know whether this author uses social anxiety and social phobia interchangeably or uses social phobia strictly in the psychopathological sense. We shouldn't speculate. By using exactly the term the author himself uses, we are on the safe side. You're right that on
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Because it led me to your userpage. I'm pretty thick skinned most of the time but I gotta tell you I found your "interesting information" about why the U.S. joined in World War II very offensive, not to mention an extremely weak conclusion based on entirely specious logic. Frankly it seems like a
530:"Joke" doesn't necessarily mean something is meant to be funny. "Joke" is also defined by a obvious case of sarcasm. For example, someone saying "yeah, Jesus killed President Kennedy" is called a joke even though it is not in any way meant to be funny, but rather as sarcasm.
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In this text-only environment it is often difficult to tell what is intended as humor and what is not, and frankly I don't find anything about the deaths of millions of people the least bit funny anyway, but I appreciate your willingness to change it.
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have two different meanings, we should avoid to use them interchangeably to preclude misinterpretations. In cases of doubt, the wording that is closer to the original, is the better. Sorry for not answering you earlier. Kind regards.
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You are the person who, once hearing this, would be offended and rant "No, no no! that's an extremely weak conclusion! It's not true!!! Jesus didn't do it!"
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Sorry it was 100% a joke. Was pretty obvious lol. Since you see it that way, I'll get change it. Oh boy how easily it is to get offended these days.
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