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

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml to c/history@hexbear.net

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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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[–] huf@hexbear.net 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the thing is, all your english words are weird and foreign, i dont see how "vole" is any more or less normal than "bellicose", "victuals" or "spilth".

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Never heard victuals or spilth either lmao

[–] huf@hexbear.net 9 points 3 weeks ago

victuals is still used a bit maybe, spilth is pretty archaic at this point i think.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

I learned "victuals" in school when I was 15 years old and then never used it or even saw it ever again until today.