> “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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2/ it's actually a fascinating mid-wit tell, like people who realize that educated people take care to say "I" and not "me" in certain circumstances, and so - to sound educated - start saying it ... ... ... in the wrong circumstances.
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My favorite parody of this is in O Brother Where Art Thou? where a character apologizes for the ignorance of his "rusticated friend".
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