Unlike most other online communication mediums, the use of pseudonyms in online discussion boards is commonplace, which means members cannot personally identify each other.
'Everyday' is an adjective that means commonplace, ordinary, or normal.
Although by no means commonplace, trials of social work interventions did take place in the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.
We are told that Mr. Cogito can "no longer / stand the colloquial turns" (in context, Herbert clearly means "commonplace," not "colloquial"), that a prosecutor has a "yellow indicator finger" ("index finger"?), and that you can hear "the tolling of scattered walls" ("collapsing walls"?).
Let us begin with his political ideals, first in domestic and then in international politics: In domestic politics, the mature Herder is a liberal, a republican, a democrat, and an egalitarian (this, it should be noted, in historical circumstances where such positions were by no means commonplace, and were embraced at a personal cost).
You shouldn't use a "big" or "fancy" word when there is a more commonplace word that means the same thing, but you may be forced to use a big word every once in a while.
Simple doesn't mean commonplace.
But just because it's commonplace doesn't mean we use it properly and productively.
The emergence of precision hand held commonplace technology may mean that more involved scientific measurements could be made by citizen scientists with the affordable everyday technology such as camera drones, digital cameras and smartphones to capture images, sound and digital data.
If this is old news for being commonplace, might it mean that in some deep place most of us believe it, too?
