Earning something and deserving it are two entirely different things. Institutions are often built on deliberately conflating the two.
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Replying to @vgr
the concept of desert is so abused it'll be in therapy for the next three lifetimes
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Replying to @doriantaylor
ah you missed an s as in desSerts, leading to some very confusing thoughts for me about dry sandy places
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Replying to @vgr
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.https://www.wordnik.com/words/desert
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Replying to @doriantaylor
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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Replying to @vgr
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. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/just_deserts …
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Replying to @vgr @doriantaylor
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?
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