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And yet, the word Hickey coined, "complect", is silly at best, and a gatekeeping obstacle to outsiders/newcomers at worst.
by KingMob 3y ago
And yet, the word Hickey coined, "complect", is silly at best, and a gatekeeping obstacle to outsiders/newcomers at worst.
- fnordsensei 3y agoCoined? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complect https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complect
- rjknight 3y agoFunnily enough, your complaint here is that although it may be simple, it is not necessarily easy, while the talk is an argument that we should prefer simplicity even at the cost of some (temporary) un-ease.
- KingMob 3y agoI'm not sure how you got that impression from my comment. But for the sake of argument, I'm saying "complect" is neither simple *nor* easy. It's obviously not easy since it's unfamiliar. But nor is it simple, or to be really precise, no simpler than alternatives, since it doesn't conceptually improve on plain words and phrases like "complicate", "intertwine", "mix up", "separate", "tease apart", etc. It adds nothing, really. Your comment kind of highlights some of the errors many take away from "Simple Made Easy": that ease is in opposition to simplicity and/or that they are completely orthogonal.