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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 13-09-2017

Sep 13, 2017 12:00

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"What's Labour's position on the Single Market?" mair_aw September 13 2017, 15:13:51 UTC

ooh, ooh, I know this one: https://twitter.com/PickardJE/status/907539722045665280

Re: andrewducker September 13 2017, 21:36:17 UTC

Pretty much!

Scientists list 50 terms you may be confusing woodpijn September 14 2017, 12:20:38 UTC

Jealousy/envy is badly explained in that article.
Envy is wanting something someone else has. Jealousy is being protective of someone or something you do have and being unwilling to share or lose them: the Bible describes God as jealous (because he won't let his people worship other gods); people who suspect their partner is cheating are jealous.
So "jealousy involves three or more people" is true, but only as a consequence, not as the defining difference; and you're not jealous of your colleague going to Hawaii just because they're going with another person, but only if they're going with your partner.

(Disclaimer: this, like the article, is about the "original" or "technical" meaning of jealousy, and as a good linguistic descriptivist I support people's right to use "jealous" to mean "envious" in everyday speech, and accept that the meaning is changing in that direction.)