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Old 12-07-2010, 05:07 PM   #172
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And to head off the endless meaningless objections about how fraud is a legal term (why that means you cannot use it in conversation, I have no idea, but...).

I am withdrawing my claim that selling what people can get free elsewhere without making them aware they can get it for free elsewhere is fraud. Instead I am coining a new word called vraud.

Which co-incidentally has the following definition

"deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage. "

And I am now claiming that selling what people can get free elsewhere without making them aware they can get it for free elsewhere is vraud.

EDIT: Oh and vraud is pronounced in the Germanic way with v sounding like f.

EDIT2: Also the fact that my definition of vraud happens to coincide with the dictionary definition of fraud is purely co-incidental, honest.

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