For years, Donald Trump has leaned on all-caps social media posts to grab attention online.

His Truth Social feed often reads like a never-ending shouting match. However, that changed after Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.) began mocking the president’s style in dozens of posts interspersed among his regular missives.

This has been going on for the better part of a week, and seems to have gotten to Trump’s ego, as his latest Truth Social posts aren’t in his classic all-caps style.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can't explicitly imply something. You can either imply or be explicit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Our understanding of how words work is different and that is ok. We've clearly communicated how we each interpret the phrase, so there's no misunderstanding in this case and we are unlikely to encounter the same phrase together again in the wild.

    edit: root disagreement is that you believe the adverb "explicitly" cannot modify the verb "imply", whereas I believe it can. I doubt either of us will convince the other.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    "Explicit" is literally defined as "fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication"

    Which makes sense, because "explicit" and "implicit" are antonyms. Do you think that something can "explosively implode"?

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