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It’s fine to write like this to the local English-speaking team. But the international team can’t parse through the pulchritudinous prose. “Very sad” it is, th
by jagged-chisel 4y ago
It’s fine to write like this to the local English-speaking team. But the international team can’t parse through the pulchritudinous prose.
“Very sad” it is, then, on the technical Slack.
- fzil 4y ago> pulchritudinous wow, that's some word of the year type shit. it means "beautiful" for those who were about to look it up.
- dmitriid 4y agoTo my non-native ear it sounds/looks like a word that means anything but beautiful. Basically, what does horgous look like https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12791 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cogs.12791
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- marginalia_nu 4y agoA lot of basic first-250-words-of-latin vocabulary has become pretentious English words for some reason. Pulchritudinous [ pulchre = beautiful ] Virile [vir = man] Tacit [tacite = quietly] Ossify [os = bone] Stultify [stultus = dumb] Puerile [puer = boy] Amicable [amice = friendly]
- creatonez 4y agoThis also seems to reflect the debate on agglutinative vs. isolating languages, or at least languages with more words vs. less words. One style is great for creative prose and philosophy, the other is practical for real world communication with those with varying skill levels. See Lojban for a very practical and clear language, which only allows you to create words packed with too much meaning when you are constructing metaphors using rafsi forms.
- chrismorgan 4y agoAh, pulchritude. A word that everyone agrees is quite inapt; it’s an ugly word.
- nitnelave 4y agoSince we're being pedantic, I'd point out that pulchritudinous is only used for people of great physical beauty, it's not a generic replacement for beautiful.
- chrismorgan 4y agoA better term might be “purple prose” (which certainly means something quite different, but probably more accurately derides the style).