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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People live in the Capitol?

The poors?

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There’s no such word as poors. [/quote]

NP.

Someone used it. I understood it. That makes it a word.[/quote]
That’s not what makes it a word. [/quote]
Yes, it is. New words are added every year to the dictionary. You know how new words are made? People assign a meaning to a word and start saying/writing them. [/quote]

New words are added. This is not a word. It is not in the dictionary. [/quote]

NP. Silly argument. People use colloquialisms all the time, and nearly everyone recognizes their value. Colloquialisms convey things that the "proper" word can't -- in this case the superior, sneering tone that a member of the elite might use towards an entire class of people who fall below them on the economic ladder. "Poor" or "those living in poverty" might be more propery, but it's missing tone.

Fun fact: "The Poors" was the title of a story published in the 1950s, and yes the term conveyed exactly that. So it's been in circulation for 70 years or something. You are free to use it or not, totally up to you, but it's absurd (and I'd argue anti-literary) to police other people's language with this kind of HOA energy. [/quote]

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