I wish lol. I agree that it’s super impractical to use two words that are most often thought of as synonymous.
That’s probably why corporate PR people came up with “private”: to make the incurious think that it’s the same thing as personal property and thus as inviolable.
It’s pretty much perfectly in line with their general conflation of personhood and business…
Okay, that’s a nice thing to distinguish, but can we have some better words for it? This is really easy to miscommunicate.
I wish lol. I agree that it’s super impractical to use two words that are most often thought of as synonymous.
That’s probably why corporate PR people came up with “private”: to make the incurious think that it’s the same thing as personal property and thus as inviolable.
It’s pretty much perfectly in line with their general conflation of personhood and business…