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The most striking recent development has been the popularity of the pluck yew story, which conflates the origin of fuck with an earlier piece of folklore about the origin of the offensive backhand two-finger gesture.
The second of the two scenarios Cramer describes conflates the interested role of the portfolio manager with the presumably disinterested role of the journalist.
(Here, again, Huntington conflates with other explanatory variables.)
The popular parlance conflates nerd with nebbish . But the overlap between the two concepts is not large, more on the order of this:
Second, Volokh conflates three distinct (if overlapping) categories of content: "indecent," "sexually explicit," and (by implication) "pornographic."