Academia absolutely loves the world 'extant'.
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<Week 1: Grad School> Me: "Oh, you mean existing?" Them: "No no, extant — *still* existing." Me: "Okay but, if something exists, it's still in existence, right?" Them: "Yes, but this pertains to documents." Me: "Once again, I think we're pretty well covered."
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Replying to @generativist
Maybe in your area, but certainly "extant" is a concise and useful word in evolutionary biology.
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Replying to @cobyviner @generativist
Having now seen how it's used in a few HCI/NLP papers, must admit this looks like an odd and quite unnecessary form of jargon! Also super confusing for those accustomed to its biological usage.
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Yea. Or in linguistics, I think. And some cultural stuff from my field. It does get abused though.
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