Quote:
Originally Posted by ApK
I hope that winky means you realize that those are not mutual exclusive.
|
A winky means I am inviting you to "think about it". If I had meant to be teasing/joking I would use sticks-out-tongue.
Is this another of your rants about the perceived arbitrary meaning of words?
A middleman is only a valuable so-called-customer in context with the sales they make to real customers.
Customers are the people who a product is targeted at. BWM publishers make books. Books are targeted at consumers. Not bookstores, bookstores don't want books -- they want customers for books.
Bookstores cannot possibly be the customers for books.
A middleman may be a customer, but certainly not for the thing they are acting as a middleman for. Which is what matters here.