No.14351
Irruption. Like I get it, by definition it's a gradient of eruption, but every time I read it I can't help but think "eruption" and why didn't they use "eruption" here and then I think about volcanoes and lose track of what I was reading in the first place.
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No.14352
>>14351
Intriguing, serendipitous, peruse. Nothing wrong with the words themselves, but every time I read them in an article I can't help but picture the author as some smug cunt who thinks of herself as well-read and thoughtful.
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No.14353
>by definition it's a gradient of eruption
How did you come to that?
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No.14354
>>14353
yeah you're right anon, upon further research it appears eruption is a noun, and irruption is an intransitive verb, and within the context of what I was reading (Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies) his use of irruption actually completely fits the bill. Thanks for pointing out my ignorance and saging my poor thread attempt on an already dead board
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No.14355
>>14351
Poset. I'm in mathematics and poset is a short hand for "partially-ordered set". Everyone uses poset because it's shorter but I fucking hate it, something about it makes me want to spit after I say it.
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No.14366
>>14352
>intriguing
>peruse
Anon, those words are junior high school words. If you think the writer who selected those is sitting smugly about their well-readness than I've bad news for you.
>>14354
>irruption
>intransitive verb
I sure hope it isn't. Moreover, the two words are different because they specify different directions indicated by their prefixes.
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No.14372
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No.14395
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No.14396
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No.15571
Epitome
Quintessence/quintessentially just sounds much better. There is no need for this barbaric sounding "epitome".
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No.15574
pagadigm. Whoever uses it, is not changing anything. Get over it.
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No.15579
>>14352
>Intriguing
I remember using the word 'intriguing' in grade school because I saw the word in a Pokemon game (Gen 1, Cerulean City on the east route). But the teacher thought my parents did my homework for me and I couldn't convince her otherwise.
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No.15581
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No.15582
>>15571
epitome and quintessence are not the same word (meaning, they have different meanings)
>>14366
"peruse" is not junior high school, it's a word used by newspaper and magazine columnists and blog "writers" and most often it's used to mean the opposite, because people think they are, like, really smart if they say "I perused your catalog for a few minutes" instead of "I skimmed through your catalog" or "I browsed your catalog"
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No.15583
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No.15587
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No.15594
>>15582
I learned peruse in junior high school; ergo, it's a junior-high-school word.
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No.15612
>fantastical
There's a perfectly good word still out there and I think we can distinguish between superlatives and adjectives
But, fine, I hate it, but it can be unclear for the clueless
but all this…?
>genetical
>magnifical
>symbolical
>acoustical
>pathetical
>geometrical
>hyperbolical
>satanical
>eugenical
I mean … seriously … ffs, stahp!!!
Words that are adjectives with the same meaning with an -ic ending or -ical ending should ALWAYS default to the -ic. When it's a noun as -ic and an adjective when -ical, such as "political", "medical", "musical" or "logical", then the distinction is valid, or when the two words mean different things, or common use has come to favour one, such as "urological" (we don't say "urologic procedure").
It's just appallingly poor education in grammar that irritates me endlessly when I see writers – people who should know how to grammar – do it.
It's all so very autistical.
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No.15613
>>14395
>PROBLEMATICAL
iftfy
Also
>cybernetical
>theocratical
>>15574
>pic related
lol
>>14355
Yeah, after all, who ever heard of mathematicians using shortened terms for anything? ijkwy
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No.15637
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No.15644
>>15637
PRESENTLY
Maybe once I've read it used in a way that actually told anything.
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No.15646
>>14396
Literally the shortest introductory phrase.
>>15612
>[when] common use has come to favour one, such as "urological" (we don't say "urologic procedure")
>points out an inconsistency
>proceeds to defeat his point by admitting it's okay when people do it
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No.15668
>>15646
>>proceeds to defeat his point by admitting it's okay when people do it
wut? when?
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No.15736
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No.15772
'terrific' when used in a negative or neutral connotation makes my skin crawl.
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No.15774
>>15772
When you say negative, do you mean sarcastic? Originally, it meant "causing terror".
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No.16652
>>15594
Well, it kinda IS.
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No.16653
>>15612
THIS.
And unnecessary suffixes-in-general. "Orientate" to mean orient. "Pretentiousness" to mean pretense. Etc.
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No.16654
"Gift" used as an infinitive or present-tense verb.
I GAVE my nephew a shirt for Christmas, I didn't "gift" it. Fucking hell. I swear.
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No.16658
I hate intentionally misspelled words. I get it, it's intentional, but it's annoying to read.
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No.16664
>>15612
I used to say electronical and thought it was an actual word. Fishes really bothers me. I know it's a proper word and all. If a cow was called a cows would cowses be the right plural? Doesn't a contextually placed apostrophe suffice?
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No.16665
>>16664
Fishes refers to multiple types of fish, not to multiple fish. The parrotfish, the catfish, and the dogfish are fishes, but three goldfish are just fish.
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