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

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

I was listening to a podcast and they hit me with "syncretic murder cult" and "hagiography" within minutes of each other.

Based on what I remember looking up a week ago:

Syncretic - a politics or religion that is composed of disparate sources mixed together.

Hagiography - a biography of a saint or a savior figure.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Hagiography is not uncommonly used sarcastically to describe a fawning biography.

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