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renato007rigin
6 years ago

Drama of the week! Do you agree with the stopEAabuse hashtag?

During this week the spanish speaking community of this game started the stopEAabuse hashtag on twitter as a form of protest and encorage players who agree to not buy anymore packs to The Sims 4. This...
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astridentanja
6 years ago
As a not originally English speaking person I’m beginning to get confused now. This is what the dictionary says:

  • use wrongly
  • treat cruelly
  • speak rudely


    I can’t imagine the hashtag is referring to the second meaning of the word. I understand and appreciate the word has a certain connotation for people who have English as their first language, meaning you’d better avoid to use the term too loosely (as I understand it the hashtag was introduced by a Spanish person and perhaps this doesn’t apply to the Spanish word ‘abuso’), but maintaining that they actually do mean the second option doesn’t seem very logical to me.

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