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My apologies if this is YART -- it's a hard topic to search for.
I've been noticing an increased use of the designation "person" to describe a like or dislike, as in: "I'm not a pizza person." Since when did people start identifying themselves so closely with their preferences? Or has this always been going on and I just now noticed?
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a hard topic to search for
And probably just as hard to document.
Often these sorts of things go on around us with barely a flicker on our radar. Suddenly we notice it somewhere and it starts appearing every where we look. The frequency hasn't increased; we just start noticing it. It's likely elliptical for I'm the sort of person who likes ________.
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mmm, pretty much wot he said, for this word person.
But tell me, Faldage, something I have wonderered at odd corners of the midnight hours: why do we not say ellipsical to describe the process of ellision, rather than having this confusion with the shape of an ellipse?
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I'm the sort of person who likes ________.
Or, alternatively, I'm one of those people who like________.
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Why not be direct and say: "I like....." or "I don't enjoy....."
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Why not be direct and say
Because that leaves you out in the cold all by your poor lonesome with no support from others of your kind.
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At the moment I can't think of any of my preferences for which I need the support of others.
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People person is a common phrase I've heard, and have used, for years, denoting someone who enjoys being around and interacting with people, or not. I'm (or he's) a people person (or "...a real people person"). Or I'm (or she's) not a people person (or "...just not a people person).
I don't ever remember this, or the other "person" attachments, not being around.
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preferences for which I need the support
Then don't wear the mask of personhood.
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