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No contradiction there, in my opinion.
No contradiction, but some implications. Implications mostly having to do with meaning behind the words and word inflation.
That was impressively opaque.
By the way, is it really "bog-standard"? I thought it was "hog-standard".
I'll unroll. "Word inflation" means that with time the intensity signaled by words decreases. Used to be you felt good on occasion, you felt excellent rarely, and you felt awesome maybe a few times in your life. Nowadays if you say "good" it means "pretty much sucks", if you say "excellent" it means "OK", and if you say "awesome" it means "I"m fine".
4chan has pretty extreme word inflation. "I'm gonna rape you bitches" generally means "I will attempt to do something unpleasant to you" and the actual intent behind it might be something like kicking someone out of an IRC channel.
So all that vocabulary in the quote upthread doesn't actually mean what it literally means. In reality it means "I want to make some status noises and that's the only way I know how".
Evidently in your area the hogs are standard, and in my -- bogs :-/
Thanks for a good humored response.
Yeah, awesome is one that gets me.