> “It’s a reminder that behaviors that seem so normative to us often do not occur in the rest of the world. around 5 years ago half the population decided that using "normative" when they meant "normal" would make them sound smarter narrator: it does not https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1419706294571786248 …
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4/ ...but personal trainers, when they write articles, are big on this too. "A new exercise _MODALITY_ ... "
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6/ hmm gonna frame this as signalling default vernacular is free, and doesn't make claims to sophistication educated speech is educated, but requires a LOT of reading, and circulation in educated circles a cheap pastiche of an expensive signal is ... of dubious utility
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it's fun to collapse as much unnecessary inflection and agglutination as possible off these words "utilization" can frequently become "use" (s not z), for example
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reminds me of "accelerating" in place of "velocity" for troopers and speeding
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