1 ' Free ' absolutely means 'free from any sorts constraints or controls. The context determines its different denotations, if any, as in 'free press', 'fee speech', 'free stuff' etc.
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For selling on craigslist, I simply use the anonymous craigslist reply email as a way of screening out those who can't write a coherent email in reply to my ad. It lets me avoid the Nigerian princes and those who have "their agent" send me a check for more than the purchase price and have me wire them the balance or other such foolishness.
Vintage Rare Huffy Single Speed Fixed Gear - $500 Reply to: sale-618125718@craigslist.org Date: 2008-03-25, 12:49PM EDT Here is a sweet, VINTAGE Huffy Strata, perfect for riding around as a city beater, or converting to a fixed gear bike, that I hear are so popular nowadays. It has Shimano SIS derailleurs, which were the first derailleurs EVER IN THE WHOLE WORLD! It's really RARE, being as ...
eBay / CraigsList finds - "Are you looking for one of these!?" Part II
I checked Garner's Modern American Usage; although BG doesn't address free of vs. free from, he writes that the distinction between freedom of and freedom from is that the former indicates the "possession of a right" (freedom of speech) and the latter "protection from a wrong" (freedom from oppression). So free from is used to indicate protection from something problematic, and free of (which ...