Entirely reasonable, and likely successful. There are however a bunch of weirdos here, and a bunch of people that won't understand the reference cause they do t remember the guy. No seriously, we grew up with him, but that was ages ago for the young'uns these days.
The national kind, yeah. Common knowledge. See above statement about how awful he was.
I am aware you're specifically referring to rush's specifically anti-socialist dint. But by suggesting he was a fan of socialism, you're committing to the same fallacy as he tended to, where he would equate socialists (from USSR so obviously they are mega socialist, and fans of the purges, read authortarians) with actual socialist ideology.
The grand irony of rush is that his solution to authoritarianism was authoritarianism.
I dont disagree, but nothing about what you have said invalidates what I had stated. Set it and forget it is the point. Give it to your grandkids.
That'd work, but Sagan opted for portable fax.
Or, and hear me out, you could say "portable fax" and be done with it. YOU are making it complicated by not being culturally acclimated to the timeframe when it was written. Everyone knew what faxes were, no explanation was necessary.
Portable fax: thing that sends and receives messages
Portable Fax IS how you describe SMS in the 80s.
I dont mean that your understanding is unimportant, but that you inherently understand what's being described to a degree that to hear it described differently than you expect you reject what you hear in favor of assuming the folks in the 80s needed more than "portable fax" to understand what you are on about.
I mean, when your religious institutions define usury as a hellworth trespass, and there are all these "filthy Jews" that are hellbound anyway, why not make an omlette?
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Didn't even notice the word the first time around, and before I read your replying assumed it was a portmanteau of medication and predicament. French could work. Dunno why the loan word though.