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From the article: On her Twitter, the writer of the piece [Monica McLemore] wrote: "I purposively didn’t quote his work so you could read it for yourself." No
by nate_meurer 5y ago
From the article:
On her Twitter, the writer of the piece [Monica McLemore] wrote: "I purposively didn’t quote his work so you could read it for yourself."
Not a good look for an aspiring scholar when her very first word is a misapprehension of everyday english.
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- greenyoda 5y ago"Purposive" is a word that I've never seen used before, but it's actually in the dictionary, and one of the meanings is as a synonym of the more usual "purposeful": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purposive https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purposive
- nate_meurer 5y agoWell I'll be damned. Citations include Aldous Huxley's 1936 "Notes on Propaganda".