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It also has to catch on as a popular thing in society. I like the term "absurdism".
by skcin7 14y ago
It also has to catch on as a popular thing in society. I like the term "absurdism".
- andreyf 14y agoYou may like how it sounds, but if you think it means "being popular and making no sense", you don't understand what it is.
- sixbrx 14y agoWell you prompted me to check whether I understand what "absurd" and "ism" mean because it seemed pretty apt to me. Still does after checking, at least for the standards of a comment on an article, as opposed to say a language semantics journal. Being popular gives us the "ism" part, by definition 3 at http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ism http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-ism : "a tendency of behaviour, action or opinion belonging to a class or group of persons; the result of a doctrine, ideology, principle, or lack thereof" The "absurd" part also fits pretty well: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/absurd http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/absurd "stupid or unreasonable; silly in a humorous way"
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- andreyf 14y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absurdism
- andreyf 14y agoTo clarify, the original use here was "absurdism may now be part of our youth culture", which is certainly something one could argue, but I'd strongly disagree with. If he wanted to use the definition you're constructing, I think he should have said "little absurdisms like this are a common part of our youth culture". That, I could agree with.
- peter_l_downs 14y agoI didn't realize this would be controversial. I meant "absurdism" in a non-philosophical sense. The way you phrased it -- "little absurdisms like this are a common part of our youth culture" -- sums it up perfectly.