> “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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3/ cops are the gold-standard for this https://twitter.com/octal/status/1419707812599435267 …
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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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