Freud summed it up.

Submitted by Andrew H (Canada), Oct 26, 2014 at 13:32

When a country cannot even agree on the definition of a word in its own language, it may be time to close shop, give it back to the natives, if they'll still have it, and everybody go back to the lands of their ancestors because it is time to quote Sigmund Freud on his reaction to New York City on his first visit. They asked what he thought of it and he said, "I think it is a gigantic mistake."

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