- well said, David.
I had the same experience attending my once in a lifetime, I hope, focus group.
The local municipality wanted to find out about its constituents.
We were referred to as consumers.
Ratepayers is even a more honest term.
I suggested citizens might be a decent name for us.
But I think the word was felt to be antique.
Max
Quoting David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
> Please people, whatever atrocities you want to commit, but can you please
> not refer to 'consumers' or 'the consumer' of poetry. I know you can't help
> it, coming from a totalitarian capitalist hell-hole like the USA, but there
> are limits.
>
> It is an offence against taste, not merely ideology.
>
>
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