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You appear to define words you don’t immediately understand at this point in time as ‘performative’, ie used only to show off. An odd position to take. If you
by grey-area 2mo ago
You appear to define words you don’t immediately understand at this point in time as ‘performative’, ie used only to show off.
An odd position to take.
If you don’t know a word just look it up, you may well learn something.
- 65 2mo agoI know what all of these words mean. My point is that these are esoteric words that don't fit into the article's purpose or for the article's audience. The author would have gotten his point across far easier if he were to have first contextualized these words, or defined them himself. Pedagogy is very important in writing. Without care for the reader, these words come off as performative.
- grey-area 2mo agoReally? Dichotomy is not a particularly complicated word, nor is it ‘performative’ for most readers.
- 65 2mo agoYou can very easily replace "dichotomy" with "difference" or "contrast", and if you have to, expand the sentence further given the context of that difference/contrast. I will wager most people do not know what dichotomy means, and since it has strong synonyms, I don't see the purpose of using it. And I've only ever heard people trying very hard to come off as smart use the word dichotomy, e.g. they're being performative. It's my opinion that you get your point across better with simpler language, even if it requires lengthening the sentence a bit.
- grey-area 2mo agoThat’s not what it means.