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This may seem like a rather quotidian story
Bro must have broken out a thesaurus for that one.
I know, right? “Writers SLAM network!” would have been so much better. I mean… who needs quality writing in journalism anymore?
Quality writing is like quality speech or quality anything communications related; it must be tailored to its audience. Using words that the likely audience of your message is unlikely to relate to or understand is about as bad an error as it is possible to make as a communicator.
This is an article about a cartoon. Not only is quotidian a strange word in that context, it's a strange word period. It's not even listed as a synonym of everyday in Merriam-Webster's dictionary even though that's literally the definition of the word quotidian in the very same dictionary. They list average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, garden-variety, normal, ordinary, prosaic, routine, run-of-the-mill, standard, standard-issue, unexceptional, unremarkable, usual, and workaday as synonyms of everyday, but they don't list quotidian. That's how bizarre and alien the word is to modern English speakers.
The real problem here is people like you, people who don't know what it means to be a competent language user. You're dazzled by absolute fucking nonsense as long as the words are long enough or exotic enough, and you encourage shit writers like the guy who wrote this article to keep writing shit articles.
Chill. They used a word you didn't know, probably not worth taking it as a personally existential threat to the quality of writing everywhere eh?
It's common and OK to need to look up words.
Imagine being this bent out of shape over a word used in an article.
And the problem is with people like me? ROFL!
Maybe take a break from the internet for a while. Read a book or something. Just don’t get pushed if the author uses words you don’t like.
Or he could have just said "mundane". Can do without the purple prose.
if you study film and/or acting, ‘quotidian’ is a pretty run-of-the-mill term. ‘mundane’ has connotations that don’t fit.