any man who takes pains to distinguish between resentment and ressentiment in public should idk just fucking stop it no one is impressed
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ok look, inflection and tone are semantically relevant and really do modify speech and indicate subtle intentions of the speaker. resentment and ressentiment mean different things in exactly the same way copulation and fuck mean different things.
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using tone and inflection to shade meaning vs using obscurantism to signal
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