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2 Nov 2024 18:52:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: These words  
From: Gilles Tran
Date: 22 Apr 2008 06:23:25
Message: <480dbc9d$1@news.povray.org>

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>>   I find it a bit strange that you don't know what altruism is.
>
> It's not a word I've ever heard anybody use IRL.

A few on the list belong to formal language, i.e. language that is not 
typically used in spontaneous speech and conversations. You have to read a 
little bit to find them (but then they can be pretty common: altruism is 
really a mainstream concept).

>>   The oedipus complex is basic psychology.

>Or "really seriously messed-up weirdness", depending on your point of 
>view...

This from a guy who *** lives *** with his dear mom :P

G.


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