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The tendency to use "fancier" vocabulary has actually been noted as a tendency of the non-Upper class. Cf. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English h
by benpbenp 10y ago
The tendency to use "fancier" vocabulary has actually been noted as a tendency of the non-Upper class. Cf. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English
- radiowave 10y agoThe language of aspiration. I like to think that "re-architect" is non-U.
- rwjwjuwjudf 10y agoPeople also use something like that to mask a lack of knowledge / experience / understanding / intelligence. Once in a while someone uses big words so well it's poetry, but those people are the exception.
- WalterBright 10y agoTechnobabble is a prime example of that. (Star Trek TNG is a hilarious example of pseudo-science jibber jabber.)
- wizardforhire 10y agoTech the tech!
- 13of40 10y agoIt's interesting to watch how, in a big tech project, a director or architect will occasionally start using a word like "corpus", "idempotent", "assert", etc. and it will trickle down the layers of the team. By the time the keypunch guy is using it, it's gone out of fashion, like last year's suit.
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- wizardforhire 10y agoKnowing this, it's fun to purposely mispronounce words to see if it will catch on...
- facetube 10y agoGo all the way IMO: make up the words and see if they catch on.
- wizardforhire 10y agoAbsolutely! I'd like to add, high culture is also used as a term for cultures that are insular and use lots of culturally specific vocabulary. The Southern Culture and accent is actually considered high culture by many anthropologists! By the same token... So is tech culture... Even when it's really annoying stupid fat lazy and mysogonistic and repeating the same problems in a different language that were solved before computers were even invented!!! Wrap your head around that one! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-_and_low-context_cultures https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-_and_low-context_cultur...
- your_ai_manager 10y agoI never thought I'd say that rare pepes are elements of high culture.