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State spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase a nonagenarian out of her home over a four figure rent check.
All so some landlord can afford another wing on the McMansion
"Hundreds of thousands of dollars" dude, absurd exaggeration doesn't help anyone. an eviction requires a single non-emergency callout, which in flordia costs around $2500 (evictions are usually categorized as property crime)
Legal filings are covered by the landlord and are significantly more expensive (numbers I am seeing for florida are hovering around $5000, but like all things legal it varies wildly). This was disgusting, but the state isn't paying out orders of magnitude more than the loss just to protect some random landlord.
Yeah it is. It's going to cost between 20 and 30k a year to keep her in a prison, and tax payers will have to pay for her medical treatment as well
She's 90 years old, it's a safe conclusion that the taxpayer was already paying for her medical care via medicare and she was already released (from jail) and the charges were dropped (as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread). The original comment just made up the cost to farm outrage, and it's fucking ridiculous they felt the need to do that on a post about a 90 year old being evicted.
I know it's rough to see propaganda you agree with called out, but that's what's happening here. That people are reacting as though I'm devaluing or excusing this travesty, I'm not, is the reason I'm doing it - even propaganda you agree with poisons the discussion. Hell, to my eye the cost to throw an ancient woman out of her housing being so incredibly cheap should really make this story all the more disgusting, as it highlights how cheap human suffering really is.
mcmansion is crazy
It's a whole thing https://mcmansionhell.com/
Completely off topic, but had to look up what a nonagenarian is, and what a useless word. Who decided we needed such a long word to say "in their 90s"
No one made it up explicitly, it just follows the formula for the rest of the decade age words like octagenarian
Octagenarian, what a useless word. Let me know when you start looking at the sexagenarians. Oh baby!
You got a problem with it? What are you, some kind of trenagenarian?
No! I'm a teenagemutantninjaterian thank you very much!
Completely off topic, but had to look up what a teenager is, and what a useless word. Who decided we needed such a long word to say "in their teens"
Completely off topic, but had to look up what a typhoon is, and what a useless word. Who decided we needed such a long word to say "ocean sky-fuckery"
who's in their teens here don't you have to be 18+??? (I don't really think 18 or 19 year olds to be in their teens)
The Romans did or at least they created the base word structures. Primus, secundus, tertius, quartus, et cetera could all be compounded with the suffix genarian to create an age bracket specific word. For example I am a secundagenarian.
"Who decided" – like most word constructions, it probably wasn't consciously decided upon by a single person but rather evolved out of existing phrases.
In this case, the Latin root nona- for ninth was extended with the -gin- / -gen- infix used for multiples of ten (viginti = 20, triginta = 30 and so on) to form the root nonaginti / nonageni for ninety / "per ninety". The infix -ari- indicates an adjective/description (nonagenarius = "having ninety"), with the suffix -an indicating a representative noun.
Together, nonagenarian refers to "someone with ninety of something" as a logical composition of existing language elements, all of which you'll find elsewhere too. It will probably have evolved naturally by people slapping on parts to describe something and others picking it up because it made sense. From there, it made its way into English as Latin words tend to.
If anything, we ought to appreciate that the "years" part of that composition is omitted, lest we would need to include something related to anni, maybe nonagenanniarian which would be even longer and more complex.
As to why people use it: Sometimes, a single descriptive noun or adjective is less ambiguous that multi-word structures. Sometimes, people want to mix up how they refer to things and use different words. Sometimes, people just want to sound erudite.
And sometimes, people pick up speech habits without much thinking about it, because they're used to people understanding it. You didn't, but congratulations: you learned a new word!