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just because there is no equivalent word for miser in the Chinese language, as someone who infatuates over the past and grumpy about the present, doesn't mean the word does not exist in the English language.
chinese? wtf are you talking about?
I literally asked where your definition of miser is coming from. its not a definition ive heard before. how does china relate to that?!
it feels like the English language has become simpler in vocabulary, like Chinese language, since 2017
oh. youre just baiting. sorry for engaging with sincerity
what makes you think I'm baiting? I recommend you learning German or Japanese languages, or even Modern Hebrew (compared to Hebrew from the Roman era), rather than Chinese language.
It seems like you're baiting because we have never heard this definition before:
Did you get it from an AI chatbot?
"Miser is a grumpy person who lives in the past, instead of the present", was the definition people used in the US before 2016.
Source?
citation needed
I don't think you're talking to an actual human tbh.
I dont want to get into a massive comment chain about basically nothing.
Engage with the discussion?
what's your question?
where did you get the definition of “miser” from? because its wrong.
“Miser is a grumpy person who lives in the past, instead of the present”, was the definition people used in the US before 2016.
I literally cited a dictionary. Ill assume youre being obtuse on purpose at this point, engaging in bad faith.
cite a dictionary from before 2016, instead, that's not online
ok good bye.
the definition for miser somehow, and some when, changed from "grumpy person who lives in the past", to "someone stingy over money and is cheapskate".
Yes. But where did you see this? what gave you that definition?
Some vague memory is not valid.
youve had your question answered. why are you arguing?
The basis of your premise is factually wrong.
just because 'the definition for miser somehow, and some when, changed from “grumpy person who lives in the past”, to “someone stingy over money and is cheapskate”' is not mentioned elsewhere, does not make it false.
i give up. you cant cite any place that has ever given that definition. live your life thinking some random word changed definitions. live your life using the word incorrectly.
good luck.
I've lived in the US since my birth here in 1991. I have never heard the definition you are claiming.
Etymology is the history of words. Here is a page about "miser": https://www.etymonline.com/word/miser
In English this would describe a traditionalist, or even just a conservative. Also, maybe a nostalgist...but that one is very rarely used.
“Miser is a grumpy person who lives in the past, instead of the present”, was the definition people used in the US before 2016.
Yeah, no. Charles Dickens used the word to describe his character Ebenezer Scrooge as a greedy old penny-pincher, in A Christmas Carol. That book was written in the 1800's, and it was a commonly used word even then.
The definition you're using, simply doesn't apply. That's not what that word has ever meant.
miser is not the same as "greedy old penny-pincher"
BUT WHY DO YOU THINK THIS? Cite your sources. Not memories. Not ideals.
Try posting an actual link like this, that uses your definition.
Upon what evidence do you make this assertion? It's always meant your "current" definition across my several decades of life.
miser does not mean someone who is a cheapskate, it means a "grumpy person who prefers living in the past"
Please provide a citation for this definition.