Timeline for What's the meaning of "pool" in this context?
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 2:54 | vote | accept | Theo | ||
| Feb 15, 2014 at 2:52 | comment | added | Theo | @Martha Yes it's the exact copy of the author's post, but I'm not quite sure whether or not he's a native speaker, it's from a forum thread discussion. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 0:14 | answer | added | nxx | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 0:05 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | It's not at all a "standard" usage. But I see no reason to suppose the author isn't a native speaker (the opposite, in fact). It's reasonably comprehensible. I couldn't swear it would convey exactly what the author meant (he probably wasn't being that precise anyway), but I suspect an appropriate replacement there might well be can of worms (things he didn't want to bring into the debate, because they would just complicate the issue). It's just pool = pot = container [full of unwanted stuff]. | |
| Feb 14, 2014 at 23:30 | comment | added | Martha | Is Person A a native speaker? Where did you read this? Is the lack of capitalization and misspelling of "etc." faithful to the original? | |
| Feb 14, 2014 at 23:21 | history | asked | Theo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |