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And in the process, our whatever-the-heck he is actually contributes, via an excellent demonstration of parts of speech and synonyms. "Right" and "justness" could both mean the same thing in a legal sense, but not when discussing anger. "Equivalent" certainly means "like" if you're talking comparisons, but not juice preferences. All eight of the substitutions are like this. His other four posts are the same way: thesaurus substitutions made to previous posts, words that could be considered synonyms in one sense but not, obviously, as used.
I've seen this in the works of novice writers who are over-reaching their own abilities. They don't think their words can stand on their own, so they try to dress them up, usually with the help of a thesaurus. Since they don't really understand what those words mean, they decide "regularize" would be a good (and swankier-sounding) replacement for "even", and write accordingly. This no doubt impresses people with the same level of knowledge that they have, but just looks silly to the rest of us.
As for this guy ... who knows. He posted five of these things in a short period, then nothing. The mods haven't done anything about him, or the strange posts. And he hasn't been back. So I'm confused.
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