people will never understand or accept that "chai" simply has a different meaning in Englishhttps://twitter.com/PadmaLakshmi/status/1211157605609029634 …
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afaict it's impossible to export culture without having it mangled (one mindset) assimilated (another mindset) or integrated (my preferred mindset) into the existing practices and even paradigm of the recipient culture tradeoffs, tsk tsk
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in closing, this could be us but u playin (re: the term "chai" being used differently in India versus America)pic.twitter.com/jTCtEP5Gvj
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🎀 sonya supposedly 🤖 Retweeted Dr. Rebecca Gibson
ha, synergy on the timeline, here's a similar semantic debate: https://twitter.com/RGibsongirl/status/1210927394170781696 … academics 5ever wanting normal people to use "doctor" in the academic sense, completely doomed effort lmao
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some non-medical PhD trying to get me to call them doctor, irl, is the stuff of my tawdry gleeful fantasies. so, you see, I'm equally plagued by ressentiment, the desperate insecurity and simmering rage that express themselves as petty relational aggression
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Stolen valor right there. "Bioanth" isn't exactly medieval. Medieval doctorate meant you taught theology... oh, wait, right
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