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| adjl 10/14/18 8:04:39 PM #69: | OhhhJa posted... I'd refer to any large group of people as a mob. Actually, off the top of my head I cant think of a "less offensive" term. Crowd? Bunch? Throng? Even without getting out of monosyllabic territory, there are quite a few options. green dragon posted... I wouldn't say that the word mob is offensive per se, it just has the connotation that the people are angry or up to no good. Exactly. It's not typically a term used to describe a perfectly innocuous gathering of people. It usually describes some degree of passion behind their gathering (i.e. "the crowd mobbed the ticket stand"), which isn't necessarily bad, but in this context the implication is definitely that that passion is an angry one. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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