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I am begging academics to use normal words (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Oppobrium? Latifundium? Bellicose? Effete? Really? What the fuck is wrong with these people. These words are like paragraphs apart

Edit: just read the term "professional-cum-technocratic ethos" this shit is not normal and the author should be ashamed

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Damn, TIL from Hexbear that words lack connotations so only one word is necessary for any concept. I'm sure that won't have any interesting ~~consequences~~ results. I'll be sure to let all my ~~communist~~ liberal and ~~anarchist~~ liberal friends know that the great success of the ~~revolutionary~~ liberal movements of the past had nothing to do with increasing literacy among the people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I'm just expressing frustration with having to look up so many words lol. It gets a bit old when half the words you look up have "archaic" next to their definition