1. @MattZeitlin did a funny tweet string about esoteric words found in Perry Anderson's American Foreign Policy book https://twitter.com/MattZeitlin/status/873555923947724800 …
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Clearly a work designed to win the hearts and minds of the blue-collar proletariat.
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I mean, the Left: trounced at the polls worldwide, while business ushers in a new Gilded Age. And what does it do? Jargon and more journals.
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Now I know how Richard Seymour developed his prose style.
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Having studied some Greek and some French isn't good for much, but it does help with these.
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4. appanage, exempla, coupure, ablutted, matastases, cathexis, brevet, encanaillement, haptic,sottisier,
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5. Most of Anderson is pretty easy to figure out with a few dictionaries (including French/English ones) but one word baffles me.
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Haha, this is great! I think obnubilate is my new favorite word.
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exordium, optative, and obsequy aren't *that* unusual IMO. The others yes.
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