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The tech oligarchs' dream of a post-literate society continues to advance (infosec.pub)
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An image of a text-based social media post by Anton Jäger. The text reads "very cool how every piece of digital technology is now purposely designed to breed illiteracy". It's followed by an Adobe pop up message saying "this appears to be a long document. Save time by reading a summary."
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[–] 60 points 6 months ago (16 children)

Had to look that word up. Thought it was a typo. Purposively. I'm going to try and use that in a sentence today irl.

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  • [–] 36 points 6 months ago (10 children)

    Do not be surprised when someone corrects you to 'purposefully'.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    We're talking about English here.

    It breaks pretty much all of its own rules, and arguably is the most unnecessarily complex widely spoken language.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I believe the actual number is around 25-30%. Blame the Norman invasion.

    But French is like 80% Latin roots so you can blame the Romans before that.

    Also yeah the crazy number of synonyms is a peculiarity of English because it also has strong influence from Old Germanic, Latin (more directly), Greek, even a bit of Sanskrit.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    To add to your point, English is an amalgamator of words from many other languages. When another language has a word without a perfect English equivalent, English tends to adopt it, allowing words like shampoo and karaoke to become part of our language too. It’s a good part of the reason that English has more words than most other European languages

    English breaks most of its own rules to begin with, and we seem to delight in finding ways to toy with the language even more.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Haha you would love the Japanese language.

    One character can have multiple meanings, and different pronunciation. 一 (ichi) vs 一つ (hitotsu) for instance.

    And then there are the puns. So many puns.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I'm about to blow your fucking mind, then: "purpositive" is a word too as a nonstandard variant of "purposive", most commonly that I've seen used to replace it in "purposive sampling". "Purpositively" is a word that has some small but real usage and that you could use if you ever stop giving a shit.

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