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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Replying to @eigenrobot
counterpoint: how about you shut your goddamn dicktrap
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Replying to @eigenrobot @palecur
we took a phenomenon, talked about it in French because we were fucking continental philosophers fucking well weren't we, and NOW THE FRENCH WORD FOR THE PHENOMENON IS SOMEHOW LADEN WITH ALL OF OUR NONSENSE WHEN THE SAME WORD IN ENGLISH ISN'T *fuck* associative neural networks
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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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'Affections,' Wolfe said. 'What?' 'Affections. In that context the plural is used.' He lifted the glass and drank, and licked his lips. Kearns stared at him. 'I didn't come here,' he said, 'to have my grammar corrected.' 'Not grammar. Diction.'
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i enjoy this discourse because it's one where i take either side with equal fervor and indignance displaying sensitive dependence on the initial condition of which kind of thing struck me as stupid first
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