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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 00:54:15 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   • Louis Ingenthron

   @LouisIngenthron the people who dont want them flying around your food?

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     Louis Ingenthron (louisingenthron@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 01:51:25 JST Louis Ingenthron

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     @freemo Both the meaning of the idiom and choice of the word "catch" imply a desire to attract rather than repel.

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     • Louis Ingenthron

     @LouisIngenthron

     Not sure what you mean, catch is typically used to refer to lethal traps.

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     Louis Ingenthron (louisingenthron@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 06-May-2024 03:57:07 JST Louis Ingenthron

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     @freemo It's true that it is used in that context, but I think that's more of a softening euphemism for "trapping". Kind of like how we say "pest control" instead of "rodent genocide".

     Most uses I know of imply a live catch, and then you decide what to do with it (i.e. catching fish, butterflies, fireflies, dogs).

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     • Louis Ingenthron

     @LouisIngenthron it may be a euphemis but it is the language you use. "I put out a fly trap to catch flys" i cant imagine anyone thinking this means anything other than an undesirable insect.