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> in English and many other languages as well - pretty much all Germanic languages

Absolutely not. In German itself it's "gegen" - "against". In French and Spanish you definitely wouldn't just omit "treatment" from "traitement de/pour"/"tratamiento de/por" and expect the meaning to not change, and both sometimes would use "contra", though less likely.

> You seem to be failing to grasp that someone who says something is “for” a problem

See above, the special-case medical reading of the construction triggers when the object is unequivocally considered a problem.

If someone's fighting anything, it's you, who fail to grasp that the title could actually read ambiguously, depending on your disposition towards Autism and conceptualization of a transplantation procedure.

Lear to embrace ambiguity as a source of humour and have fun, instead of trying to tell people they use a language wrong.

parent ZoomZoomZoom 5 months ago

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