How to pronounce“borrowing”in English
And so if we're going to figure out how to have an organized, universal morality, we have to deal with this higher order problem.
Borrowing from Hardin and his "Tragedy of the Commons," I call this the tragedy of common sense morality.
There are different versions of moral common sense that enable different tribes to solve their smaller tribal moral problems.
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Definitions of “borrowing”
present participle and gerund of borrow
“She is borrowing my pen.”
Shoplifting.
An instance of something being borrowed.
“January 1834, Horace Binney, Speech on the Question of the Removal of the Deposites Subscriptions, borrowings of money, taxings of the citizens and their property, may all be valid, as operations by virtue of laws for the government of the City […]”
A borrowed word, adopted from a foreign language; loanword.
“Whilst you would be forgiven for thinking this statement comes straight from the latest UKIP manifesto, it is in fact a quotation from The Anglish Moot, a fan-page promoting the use of the 'Anglish' language — that is, English with all foreign borrowings stripped away.”
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