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What the fuck is wrong with these people

they're honkeys

People always talk about the big words and always sleep on the garden path sentence structure. Also, people rarely differentiate between academic terminology and academic jargon, which are indeed different.

The only time language like this is okay is if you're writing a high fantasy book about magic rings.

But its not the academics fault that the education system failed you?

Academia is completely jargon-brained. Mao was right to send them to the countryside to shovel pig shit.

Oppobrium

It just means shame, a near universal concept found in almost every single human society. "Uh aktually, oppobrium has no modern equivalent because the Roman's understanding of shame is different from modern society." Shame is shame. Every society has the concept of shame. Obviously, every society has their own particular twist and interpretation of it.

Latifundium

It's just a plantation within a Roman context. Academia being jargon-brained means using this word even when it's really obvious you're writing something within a Roman context. If you're writing a paper about the economy of the late Roman empire, you don't need to say "latifundium" or even "Roman plantation." You can just say "plantation" because the paper is obviously about Rome. Now, if you're comparing different types of plantations, then it would make sense to use the word. If you're comparing a Roman plantation with a Haitian plantation, using "latifundium" and "habitation" would make sense since "Roman plantation" and "Haitian plantation" gets cumbersome after a while.

Bellicose

It means warlike, aggressive, or combative. It's one of those words that's occasionally used in writing but never used in speech. Most people would just use "belligerent" as in a "belligerent drunk." And I just looked it up and both "bellicose" and "belligerent" come from the same Latin "bellum" for "war." Another instance of academia being divorced from the masses where they picked the slightly less often used word even when both words mean the same thing and come from the same Latin word.

Effete

It's not used often and for good reason. The word has homophobic and misogynist undertones. When you call someone an effete man, you're basically calling him a limp-wristed homo. The word originally meant "woman weakened from having just given birth."

It's some kind of PMC Gaslighting, just by recognizing (and fully rejecting) that shit, nothing stands between you and eternal wisdom. Stop begging, rip it apart comrade!

It’s a big reason why leftists in academic circles struggle to get any working class people outside of academic circles on their side.

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.

Latus rectum

latifundist is good and useful, those other examples are thesaurus jerking