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> I've always wondered how it ended up catching on in seemingly exclusively academia I'm guessing in part it's the name, which ordinary people probably find ha
by quotemstr 7y ago
> I've always wondered how it ended up catching on in seemingly exclusively academia
I'm guessing in part it's the name, which ordinary people probably find hard to remember, spell, and pronounce. (The original shibboleth "shibboleth" was meant to be hard to pronounce!)