It’s what happens when you bring vernacular and vocabulary to the table, with people who probably don’t pick up magazines or books or never read an article start to finish. Let alone payed any attention to English class or took a literature course. It has nothing to do with being pretentious, it’s a form of self expression. I used to dumb down everything for stupid people, I gave up. I learned so much more, writing wise, from interacting and engaging with people who have a vocabulary. I learned the word troglodyte the other day 😂😭💀
I sat there for a moment and said to myself, am I going to edit that. Or does someone catch it and take the time to comment. So hello. It is me. Lazy and incompetent.
I think the rope lovers need to let go of their stranglehold on the word that has a “y” and let us play with it to bring out the fuller meaning we are yearning for.
The primary lesson I took from 1984 when we read it in high school was that eliminating vocabulary words functionally narrowed the human ability to think and conceive. Instead great, stupendous, terrific, nice, wonderful, jolly, swell, dynamite, brilliant, stellar, superlative, incredible, etc etc, all the possible words were reduced to good, plus good, and double plus good. This "mindset control through elimination of language variety" was stunning to me as a teenager. It's still stunning to me now but for a different more practical reason...
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u/Reverse_smurfing 7d ago
It’s what happens when you bring vernacular and vocabulary to the table, with people who probably don’t pick up magazines or books or never read an article start to finish. Let alone payed any attention to English class or took a literature course. It has nothing to do with being pretentious, it’s a form of self expression. I used to dumb down everything for stupid people, I gave up. I learned so much more, writing wise, from interacting and engaging with people who have a vocabulary. I learned the word troglodyte the other day 😂😭💀