• Soggy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That’s just misapplying an academic definition in a colloquial circumstance, which happens a lot in various disciplines. It’s like the “what is a vegetable” question: it means different things to a botanist, chef, and tax collector.

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      2 days ago

      Ah, the American Millennial: the generation that could’ve led us toward utopia if they cared more about actions than words.

      (yes I see the whole academic definitions thing as a specifically Millennial trait)

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        1 day ago

        So just dismiss everything the person tried to explain to you, because you’ve decided, with absolutely no proof that they’re millennial? The fuck is wrong with you?

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          21 hours ago

          No??? But, like, a lot of them seemed to not know the difference between “this is what this word means here” and “this is what this word means.”