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WCDT Nov 8 - Nov 13th (4651-4655)
Tova:
There are lots of ways to coin new words, and none of them particularly make more "sense" than any other. The only weird thing is when people assume rules about English that don't actually exist.
JimC:
On the furry thing, I've noticed as I get older that the urge to denigrate one's fellow humans remains a constant of human nature, all that changes is which attributes are found acceptable for looking down on your fellow humans. And of course said attributes also vary spectacularly with social groupings. If, as I have, you have been involved in running email content filtering for a large and diverse employer, you get a particular insight into that sort of thing.
On a completely different point, there is surely no doubt that Claire is disappointed that she has not (yet?) secured a post in her chosen profession, so it ought to be perfectly acceptable for her mother to be disappointed for her too. So that does overlap, now I think of it, because working in retail catering is one of the many things that gets people looked down on. I've worked in the best burger shop in my town, and I've been the no 1 IT techie in my organisation, and I take an equal pride in both. I used to say that should there be a major epidemic then the person who cleans the toilets may be the most important employee in the company...
Tova:
--- Quote from: JimC on 18 Nov 2021, 15:12 ---On the furry thing, I've noticed as I get older that the urge to denigrate one's fellow humans remains a constant of human nature, all that changes is which attributes are found acceptable for looking down on your fellow humans.
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What's more, no matter how looked-down upon you might be, there's always some other group of people that you can look down on yourself.
Incidentally, this is one of the central themes of the film Parasite. The trailer for the film encapsulate this theme perfectly in its opening image (even if it's not completely obvious when viewing the trailer for the first time, but it plants a seed).
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 18 Nov 2021, 11:59 ---This seems to be morphing into the 'English is weird' thread
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Technically. Though we're discussing scientific terminology.
Granted, it's certainly not the first time Greek and Latin things have been mixed up (see satyrs and fauns).
Tova:
There's only one "rule" about coining a new word.
Can you convince a lot of other people to start using it?
If so, congratulations. You've just coined a new word that will soon make it into dictionaries.
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