Isn’t 国 more like land, country or kingdom? 
So less to do with being the centre of the world and more like the central region of a nation, broadly speaking. But also I’m not a native speaker so I’m not trying to argue against your observation, just looking for clarification.
Come on, you can’t say neigh to be a bit of horse
I misread it as “Ducks: How to make them fly”
I love public and private having the same meaning
No-name Halloween? Looks like 8 new names to me
The week, on the other hand, is fair game.
Sounds ridiculous, but apologists will literally say this.
Oh, believe me I noticed
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Maybe narrow would be better wording, given that it’s about proportions rather than absolute size
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Also, even if “people with job X” caught on, that wouldn’t actually achieve anything. The impression or image in your head that you get when you hear “people who work in a factory” vs. “factory workers” is the same, even if the wording deliberately makes reference to people.
I appreciate what the intention is behind it, just like with “people with disabilities” vs. “disabled people”, but it doesn’t address the societal issues that result in the actual discrimination/problematic views.
This is more of a theoretical argument, but from a linguistic perspective there’s a common misconception that language shapes our perception of reality, when in fact it’s the other way round. If you talk about subject X which is looked down on for whatever reason, the commonly used word for it can take on a derogatory tone, which leads to well-meaning people using a more positive word. This is commonly seen with words for women in patriarchal societies, and it leads to a cycle of neutral words becoming derogatory and polite words becoming the new standard, until that word becomes derogatory and has to be replaced in turn. None of this is to say we shouldn’t be careful with the language we use, and in fact it’s a good way of signalling respect, but I just want to highlight that adopting new terminology is itself won’t achieve much.
Yeah, it was Fred. We should thank him more often.
When the abyss stares back at you, maintain flirty eye contact
Any deal that involves me giving money to Amazon is not a good one
A jumper is a bad example, because it’s not just made up of sleeves.
A bra is a much better example. But I was never making an argument that all things made up of two parts are referred to as a pair, just my thoughts on the rationale behind cases where we do.
I don’t doubt that, I’m just saying the name itself doesn’t imply the centre of the world