Earning something and deserving it are two entirely different things. Institutions are often built on deliberately conflating the two.
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the concept of desert is so abused it'll be in therapy for the next three lifetimes
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ah you missed an s as in desSerts, leading to some very confusing thoughts for me about dry sandy places
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nah man
n. Something that is deserved or merited, especially a punishment. Often used in the plural: They got their just deserts when the scheme was finally uncovered.
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huh I always thought the etymology for just deserts derived from desserts as in rewards good/bad in the form of good/bad cake :D
So it is from the other end of connotations
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haha no it's the noun form of deserve
english is the php of natural language
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I have been schooled frenchily. I had no idea. I've been going through life thinking in terms of symbolic dessertic rewards.
From the synonym, "paypack" then it's getting really confusing, to that of "earnings", earn and deserve becomes really conflated. If the verb/noun are the givers instead the I, i.e. pay vs recognition, would it be more clarity?


