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askshivanulegacy · 3 months

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Watching someone have an absolute meltdown over the difference between technical terminology and common usage. They seem unable to distinguish that "the friends who vouch for them" are no different than the hundreds to thousands of people using the non-technical term already, or that there's nothing special about this particular term compared to any other term that has differences in technical vs common usage. Welcome to science. Nothing about this situation is new or interesting. Words ABSOLUTELY have different meanings based on context and speaker intent and you cannot remove those or your arguments are straw with no substance.

Just because YOU operate in circles that have deep-dived your special interest knowledge groups doesn't mean everyone else has. What's "common knowledge" to YOU is not the same thing as REAL common knowledge, and even that varies depending on background.

The shift in meaning of this particular term has already sailed by years. Nothing about it is new, so seeing someone complain this late in the game is ... special. Not to mention the inconsistency in the meltdown rage over this term but no others.

It would be one thing to simply inform people about the term as a matter of trivia, but this bad-faith approach that puts words in people's mouths and calls them stupid for having a different opinion and a broader perspective is two-year-old behavior.

#i don't even go here #and i don't care about what this person is doing so much as the idiotic way they're doing it #the inconsistency #the false friend-groupthink validation which is YEARS LATE #as an argument there might have been merit years ago but it's too little too late #the inability to understand different meanings in different contexts as if this is anything new #the implication that people are saying something terrible when they are not (and by an OBVIOUS margin like this is not rocket science)#and ofc the inane tumble-think approach which is to inform in the most antagonistic way possible with bad faith callouts baked into it #people can't simply provide information in a neutral or helpful way anymore and then they get mad when people call them on it #oh yes and then calling people stupid for not living and breathing the same background and context #/eyeroll #juvenile behavior. i really did expect better but this is tumblr #gotta lower the standards. 😂#commentary #don't worry too much about this post. just lamenting the generic social media infection i guess #with points that it would do Tumblr good to understand #xD

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