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Originally Posted by Melkerson
And someone who follows a vegan diet and refers to themselves "vegan" is at worst being ambiguous, but they're not wrong. This would be a natural way for native speakers of English to communicate.
Imagine the following exchange:
Server at restaurant: Do you have any dietary restrictions?
Customer: I'm vegan
There is nothing wrong with that. Even if the customer doesn't buy into the whole philosophy.
Yes, if you tell a server that you're a vegan, he or she will know that you do not consume meat or dairy, and story over. If they see you sporting some Allen Edmonds, then he or she will likely just think you're just another hypocritical vegan.
For me, I just tell the server that I don't eat dairy because I never eat anything that could possibly have any hidden animal stock/marinades hidden in there.
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Originally Posted by Melkerson
Well we can choose crowd-sourced or LOL-sourced. You're just asserting stuff here with no actual sourcing.
LOL-sourced much more accurate here. My source below.
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Originally Posted by Melkerson
For example, many vegetarians define being vegetarian as not eating products that involve animal slaughter. So they're OK with milk, for example.
Yes, ovo-lacto vegetarian is the default definition when someone says vegetarian. This is why pure vegetarian exists - to differentiate the two.
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Originally Posted by Melkerson
Those are the same donk sources wiki references.
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Originally Posted by Melkerson
I mean you can make up and assert your own definitions if you want. But there are a lot of people who use these words differently from you. Sorry for the bad news.
My source comes from going to the library in the 1980's, you know, before public internet access, and grabbing one of those 5000 page reference books that they do not let you check out and will only allow you to read them in one specific place in the library.
Fruitarian, breatharian, macrobiotic, ovo-lacto, pure, pescatarian, et al., were all in there. I can't help if any schmoe with internet access bastardizes it and gets enough clicks to be viewed as an actual valid source.
Call me old-fashioned, but no matter how many dictionaries the word "diss" shows up in, it's still just a bastardized slang version of the word "disrespect" to me.
Same basic logic applies here.