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It's strange that they don't offer "recommendations for preferable terms" for every term. Or, at least example sentences with the terms to avoid removed and rep
by irrational 4y ago
It's strange that they don't offer "recommendations for preferable terms" for every term. Or, at least example sentences with the terms to avoid removed and replaced with more appropriate language. Clearly these terms are being used because authors find them useful. Without guidance on how to replace them, authors will probably keep using them.
- enneff 4y agoA lot of the terms on this list describe things that simply don’t exist, so the implicit suggestion is to not make shit up. To, y’know, research what you’re writing about rather than just repeat mistruths.
- analog31 4y agoAn urban legend from physics is that Murray Gell-Mann deliberately chose whimsical terms for his ideas, such as "quark" and "up, down, charm, strange, truth, and beauty." The rationale was to prevent any possibly application of a familiar definition or social implications of the terms, such as was applied to "relativity."
- soledades 4y ago>authors find them useful. main use is to mislead self an dothers