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Chris -- 2025-05-10
“We Americans are very prosperous”, a friend said (more or less), then added (verbatim, I think):
We are just very fluent
which he followed up by saying something to the effect that “we have more than we need”. It’s possible that he meant to pronounce, and may indeed have pronounced too weakly for me to hear, an initial “af-” syllable. But others have written it without that syllable on the Internet
For one, we live in a very fluent society Things are given to us. We prosper especially in our our society today
We have a very fluent society where many people because their needs are being met. They don’t see any need of god.
This book gives the picture of the very fluent society that is influenced by any only national but international factors.
This may well be a kind of etymological reconstruction, but metaphors of fluidity and liquidity seem fit naturally with the idea of prosperity (a land flowing with milk and honey, liquid assets, money flooding in, the in-fluence of the well-to-do, and so forth.) If it is standard for anybody it would, by my lights, be at least somewhat eggcornish.
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Some have suggested—and there is a case to be made for it—that we inhabit rather an effluent society.
Last edited by DavidTuggy (2022-04-13 19:34:06)
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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