Since we're playing full-on pedantry games, did I ever claim at any point that debt was objectively bad? I provided objective statistical measurements of patterns of debt and savings in the US. I make no claims otherwise. Other inferences and insinuations are wholly on the part of the reader.
An easy way to look at it is being able to afford something means having enough money to spare, not just happening to have that much money to your name.
And thus we come to the link.
In my long time on the internet I find linguistic prescriptionists to be that domain of people for whom the most important thing is to be the smartest and most "correct" person in a discussion. Successful communication and interchange of ideas, if it's desired at all, is usually a secondary concern.
I've learned my lesson. Guy is just an irritating pedant who thinks it's fun to talk down to people.
I recently got an 8 and avoided the 8s when they told me the only difference was the better camera. I couldn't care less about the camera.
That might be it's literal meaning, but I always took it as being able to pay for something without putting me a tough financial position. Let's say that I had $60k in my bank account right now. I am shopping for a car, and then I found a nice car for that much that I liked. I could definitely write a $60k check and get the car. Does that mean I can afford it? No. At least not without impacting how much money I could spend on essential things to survive. With that kind of money, I could afford a $20k-$30k car without any issues. Buying a $30k car in my situation will not have any major negative consequences. Now, I am over simplifying since I would never drop that much cash on car since financing is much more practical since the cash could be invested on much more important things. But I hope you get the idea.
It's all one person arguing with everyone. This is genuinely the first time I've ever considered blocking someone on a forum.
Oh you mean your google.com definition where the bullet points under definition #1 (the definition you cited) specifically included the alternate uses he was referring to?
You were being pedantic AND disingenuous.
Those bullets are part of definition one. You need to grow up. I pity the people in your life who can't put you on ignore. They must be fucking miserable whenever you interact with them.
