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> the "lazy is bad" crowd is ludditism in another form Capital --> capitalist, capitalism. Commune --> communist, communism. Ned Ludd --> Luddite, Luddism.
by CRConrad 2y ago
> the "lazy is bad" crowd is ludditism in another form
Capital --> capitalist, capitalism.
Commune --> communist, communism.
Ned Ludd --> Luddite, Luddism.
Not "capitalistism" or "communistism", so not "ludditism" either.
- fragmede 2y agoGoing by your other examples, shouldn't it be Luddist and not Luddite? English is famously inconsistent and is a difficult language to learn, owing to it's linguistic heritage, as it's a bunch of exceptions to rules. Like i before e, except after c, but also in a bunch of other words, so every English student just needs to remember those.
- CRConrad 2y agoYeah, maybe not the best examples. There are other "-ite" words, but I can't recall off the top of my head any such that also have "-ism" forms. It is, as always with languages, "just the way it is": I've always seen it rendered as "Luddite", never "-ist". (Maybe because it's named for a person, not a thing or principle? Tried to hint at that possibility with his full name.) Yup, English may be the most inconsistent of languages. When I was a kid, we used to blame French for being "just exceptions to rules, exceptions to exceptions, and exceptions to those exceptions!", but with a few decades of perspective... Nope, English is far worse.