re: #80 gmsc

I almost like “commoner” just because of its demeaning sound – it says that the people taking on that label aren’t afraid of what other people think or how they use labels.

I might be alone in this, but put me down as a Yea.

I may not be qualified to vote, since I’m not really looking for a new political identity, but I kind of like it—the association with ‘the common man’ has a nice English yeomanish sound to it that I like. Sensible.

Then again, I have no problem with being ‘bourgeois’.

Problems I see: all the ones already suggested, plus to my liberal ears it does have an echo of suggesting that non-Commoners are ‘elites’.