CPOTZ@aol.com wrote:
>NO one who has access to the Internet, TV, designer clothing,
>cigarettes,alchohol etc IS poor, the thing WE all say on occassion is we are poor ,can't afford it ,
>
As there are many degrees of poverty, there are also several, well
accepted, meanings to the word 'poor'.
According to ' The Concise Oxford Dictonary' one can be poor if :
'ill supplied, deficient (in a possession or quality)', or just
'unfortunate, hapless', which by the way is wholly subjective.
Some can feel, and ipso facto are, poor for not having a pair of the
smoothest silk Clement tubulars; others for longing for a 50th Gruppo.
To each his own!
Sergio
Pisa