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Maj Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
Issues
Can someone tell me the meanings of this word? For example if I say we have a few issues what do you understand by that?
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Maj, I think you are using or hearing "issues" in a jargon sense that came out of the post-1970's self-help movement. " But that lacks the "I'm getting political now" overtone.
- Maj, I think you are using or hearing "issues" in a jargon sense that came out of the post-1970's self-help movement.
- " But that lacks the "I'm getting political now" overtone.
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Maj, I think you are using or hearing "issues" in a jargon sense that came out of the post-1970's self-help movement. When it's used in this way, it means "issues to discuss," or more exactly "things we need to talk about because your approach bothers me, and causes me to question your personal politics -- not party politics, but the kind of politics addressed by the old feminist saying, 'the pe
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