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

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 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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[–] Barabas@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

I can recall all the words in the OP being used by him, other than Oppobrium (though I’m sure he has used it somewhere). The reason I used Yellow Parenti as an example is because that is the first time I heard of it and I looked it up. I have never heard of it from any source other than parenti